ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents an overview of key concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. It is useful to draw the main conclusions of this study together by showing how the various interpretations of Jung's concepts may be integrated. It highlights the main contributions of existential phenomenology and analytical psychology towards an integrated phenomenological analytical psychology. The psyche is that perceptual world openness within which the world comes into being as a humanly constituted and engaged world. Psyche is not an entity in the world similar to other entities, nor is it a particular location in the world. It is the imaginal texture that is given through the manifestation of things. As imaginal intentionality, psyche is that between out of which personhood and one's world emerge and in which they are founded. As an imaginal intentionality, psyche's openness is a nothingness which, however, is not an emptiness, a sort of vacuum.