Introduction

The analytic method of C.G. Jung is really an education in depth quite as much as it is a form of psychotherapy. Therefore those whom it attracts are often by no means abnormal but are seeking a fuller, more meaningful life through psychological enlightenment.

1 The Family

The earliest archetypes to present themselves are those of the family, the mother and the father, though their approach is entirely unconscious. We are apt to think that the individual comes first and then feels joined to the family. But psychologically it doesn't happen that way. The family, as Jung has aptly put it, is like the primordial soup in which the individuals swim around as little fishes, incapable of living apart.