ABSTRACT
Jung's attempts to espouse a continuity between his concepts of the conscious and unconscious and Freud's, his descriptions of each indicate an ontological divergence from Freud's topographical account. Both conscious and unconscious, for Jung, are ambiguous: collective and heroic consciousness are forms of unconsciousness, and the unconscious has its own operative intentionality and is therefore a form of consciousness. Generally, Jung prefers the term consciousness to refer to the capacity to reflect upon, apperceive, and appropriate as one's own those incarnate intentionalities that are pre reflectively, or unconsciously, lived. Jung's word association studies helped to develop his notion of the complex. It is argued that, the complex structures one's bodily responsiveness, dreams, thoughts, language, feelings, and interpersonal presence, it could not be conceived in terms of classical philosophical categories such as mind and body and that it has to be conceptualised existentially. The complex is that vital intentionality which discloses the world imaginally.
