ABSTRACT
Describing and discussing the essential significance of Jung's experience in Africa, a number of themes of the present thesis have been anticipated, and stated without having been argued in a sustained way. Furthermore, the arguments are revolved around his experience rather than his theoretical writings as such. The term psyche seems to have been the most powerful concept through which Jung thought, yet its conceptual precision receded elusively beyond his grasp. The discussion of Buber's critique of Jung and the problem of psychologism is done. Jung insists that there is no experience that does not take place in the psyche, for the psyche is the only immediate reality, an autonomous realm contained within itself. It is not reducible either materially or hermeneutically to the body, Jung rejects both psycho physiological and psychoanalytic reductionism. Nor does the psyche exist and function as an inner realm in parallel with the body, Jung rejects psychophysical parallelism.
