ABSTRACT

This chapter describes the evolution of training analysis in analytical psychology and to present some issues which pertain to its practice. After the break with Freud, Jung entered a long period of introversion, experiencing many images and fantasies that he could not explain using Freud's theories. Jung then described a collective level to the unconscious, which he believed contained creative potential, extending Freud's picture of the unconscious as the repository of repressed infantile material. Within his own theoretical framework the personal analysis was the core of an analyst's professional training. The chapter presents some core concepts of analytical psychology: dreams, psychological type, transference and countertransference, dialectical relationship, and symbolic versus developmental. As we are aware of boundary issues in analysis, and what happens when they are transgressed, this policy has changed in every training institution around the world. The philosophy is to preserve the privacy of every candidate's personal analysis.