ABSTRACT
Freud laid out the fundamental principles of technique in psychoanalysis in a series of ten papers published between 1910 and 1919. Historically, Jungians have held a more ambivalent attitude about guidelines regarding technique in general and interpretation in particular. The general avoidance of technique within the Jungian world can largely be traced back to Jung’s attitude towards technique which carried on in the generations that followed him. In addition to recommending directed association, it could also be argued that Jung replaced Freud’s free association method with active imagination, a technique developed by Jung to facilitate the engagement and assimilation of unconscious processes. Jung’s writing contains mixed positions on transference and countertransference. The subject of technique or method receives significantly less emphasis in most Jungian psychoanalytic training programs than it does in many other schools of psychoanalytic training. This tendency is particularly pronounced in the area of analytic interpretation.
