Going through the ups and downs of life, one will realize soon enough that “what one wants” and “what one needs” are seriously not the same thing.
You’ve probably discovered on your own – and many times over – how unsatisfactory and short-lived getting what you want feels like. Worse, sometimes there is an overwhelming emptiness when achieving a lifelong goal.
Analytical psychology makes the singular claim that the psyche is, at its deepest and most unconscious level, structured. These fundamental psychic structures, called archetypes, produce spontaneous images that can be empirically studied through dreams, fairy tales, mythology, and religions.
CG Jung, Dream Analysis & The Red Book
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQJslrhOdQw
The full interview can be found below.
A fundamental distinction between most spiritual/religious practices and analytical psychology is the focus on the exploration of the dark side of one’s psyche. While Christians reflect and pray to the Love of God and New Age people bliss out in mass meditation, individuation requires to go the other way.
