ABSTRACT
A number of scholars amongst the post-Jungians have focused on Carl Jung’s model for the archetypes, including respectively their nature, their function, both in infant development and in social structuring, and their manifestations as archetypal images, including dissociation, active imagination, the transference and technique. The post-Jungians have developed Jung's ideas concerning the psychoid concept in a considerable variety of directions. The post-Jungian literature addresses the relationships between: archetypal processes arising from the psychoid unconscious and dissociation; active imagination and the integration of archetypal content through the embodied countertransference of the analyst in the service of meaning. The Berlin Research Group conducted a clinical study between 1969 and 1974. The group, consisting initially of four Jungian analysts, all men, and, after two years, including also a fifth Jungian analyst, a woman, set out to investigate the countertransference “in a situation with proper scientific controls”.
