Jung considered the gods Thoth and Hermes to be counter-parts ( Yoshida 2006 ).

As Pauli considered parapsychology worthy of serious investigation, this would fit with his thinking ; to this end, Pauli corresponded with Hans Bender and Carl Jung on the concept of Synchronicity.

Jung considered individuation, the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining their relative autonomy, to be the central process of human development.

Jung considered individuation, a psychological process of integrating the opposites including the conscious with the unconscious while still maintaining their relative autonomy, necessary for a person to become whole.

Jung recommended spirituality as a cure for alcoholism and he is considered to have had an indirect role in establishing Alcoholics Anonymous.

Northrop Frye considered that ' the literary critic finds Freud most suggestive for the theory of comedy, and Jung for the theory of romance '.

Adler is considered, along with Freud and Jung, to be one of the three founding figures of depth psychology, which emphasizes the unconscious and psychodynamics ( Ellenberger, 1970 ; Ehrenwald, 1991 ); and thus to be one of the three great psychologist / philosophers of the twentieth century.

" Jung considered indeed that " there must be some people who behave in the wrong way ; they act as scapegoats and objects of interest for the normal ones ".

Assagioli considered Jung ’ s theories to be closest to his understanding of Psychosynthesis.

By common consent, the following branches are considered to be transpersonal psychological schools: various depth psychology approaches including Analytical psychology, based on Carl Jung, and the Archetypal psychology of James Hillman ; the spiritual psychology of Robert Sardello ; psychosynthesis founded by Roberto Assagioli ; Zen Transactional Psychotherapy created by Robert M. Anthony ; and the theories of Otto Rank, Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, Timothy Leary, Ken Wilber, Michael Washburn and Charles Tart.

Jung attributes human rational thought to be the male nature, while the irrational aspect is considered to be natural female.

It is almost as if Jung were describing separate personalities within what is considered a single individual, but to equate Jung's use of complexes with something along the lines of multiple personality disorder would be a step out of bounds.

Jung considered the general arrangement of deities in triads as a pattern which arises at the most primitive level of human mental development and culture.

Jung considered the question of the existence of God to be unanswerable by the psychologist and adopted a kind of agnosticism.

From one perspective, ' the shadow ... is roughly equivalent to the whole of the Freudian unconscious '; and Jung himself considered that ' the result of the Freudian method of elucidation is a minute elaboration of man's shadow-side unexampled in any previous age '.

Jung considered that ' the course of individuation ... exhibits a certain formal regularity.

Jung considered as a perennial danger in life that ' the more consciousness gains in clarity, the more monarchic becomes its content ... the king constantly needs the renewal that begins with a descent into his own darkness ' — his shadow-which the ' dissolution of the persona ' sets in motion.

Jung also seriously considered the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis.

Jung considered that from birth every individual has an original sense of wholeness-of the Self-but that with development a separate ego-consciousness crystallizes out of the original feeling of unity.

Once ego-differentiation had been successfully achieved, and the individual securely anchored in the external world, Jung considered that a new task then arose for the second half of life-a return to, and conscious rediscovery of, the Self: individuation.

Jung believed that archetypes such as the animus, the anima, the shadow and others manifested themselves in dreams, as dream symbols or figures.

Jung believed that material repressed by the conscious mind, postulated by Freud to comprise the unconscious, was similar to his own concept of the shadow, which in itself is only a small part of the unconscious.

According to Jung, the human being deals with the reality of the shadow in four ways: denial, projection, integration and / or transmutation.

Jung emphasized the importance of being aware of shadow material and incorporating it into conscious awareness in order to avoid projecting shadow qualities on others.

" Everyone carries a shadow ," Jung wrote, " and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to projection: turning a personal inferiority into a perceived moral deficiency in someone else.

Jung also believed that " in spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness — or perhaps because of this — the shadow is the seat of creativity.

Jung also made the suggestion of there being more than one layer making up the shadow.

This bottom layer of the shadow is also what Jung referred to as the collective unconscious.

According to Jung, the shadow sometimes overwhelms a person's actions ; for example, when the conscious mind is shocked, confused, or paralyzed by indecision.

Nevertheless Jung remained of the opinion that while ' no one should deny the danger of the descent ... every descent is followed by an ascent ... enantiodromia '; and assimilation of — rather than possession by — the shadow becomes at last a real possibility.

Whereas Jung ’ s psychology focused on the Self, its dynamics and its constellations ( ego, anima, animus, shadow ), Hillman ’ s Archetypal psychology relativizes and deliteralizes the ego and focuses on psyche, or soul, and the archai, the deepest patterns of psychic functioning, " the fundamental fantasies that animate all life " ( Moore, in Hillman, 1991 ).

Jung said that " the encounter with the shadow is the ' apprentice-piece ' in the individual's development ... that with the anima is the ' masterpiece '".

Jung commented that in a man the lunar anima and in a woman the solar animus has the greatest influence on consciousness.

In his book Mysterium Coniunctionis Jung made some important final remarks about anima and animus:

And in this book Jung again emphasized that the animus compensates eros, while the anima compensates logos.

Such was the popularity and influence of the novel that it was cited in the psychoanalytical theories of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, the latter describing the character of She as a manifestation of the anima figure.

Jung in his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections tells us that he began to see and talk to a manifestation of anima and that she taught him how to interpret dreams.

Jung identified the anima as being the unconscious feminine component of men and the animus as the unconscious masculine component in women.

Jung stated that the anima and animus act as guides to the unconscious unified Self, and that forming an awareness and a connection with the anima or animus is one of the most difficult and rewarding steps in psychological growth.

Jung reported that he identified his anima as she spoke to him, as an inner voice, unexpectedly one day.

This explains, according to Jung, why we are sometimes immediately attracted to certain strangers: we see our anima or animus in them.

According to Jung, this split is recapitulated in the unconscious mind by means of " contrasexual " ( opposite-gendered ) elements called the anima ( in men ) and the animus ( in women ).

Two of the major complexes Jung wrote about were the anima ( a node of unconscious beliefs and feelings in a man's psyche relating to the opposite gender ) and animus ( the corresponding complex in a woman's psyche ).

The anima and animus are described by Jung as elements of his theory of the collective unconscious, a domain of the unconscious that transcends the personal psyche.

Jung viewed the anima process as being one of the sources of creative ability.

Jung believed anima development has four distinct levels, which he named Eve, Helen, Mary and Sophia.

Jung focused more on the male's anima and wrote less about the female's animus.

Jung believed that while the anima tended to appear as a relatively singular female personality, the animus may consist of a conjunction of multiple male personalities: " in this way the unconscious symbolizes the fact that the animus represents a collective rather than a personal element ".

One danger was of what Jung termed " invasion " of the conscious by the unconscious archetype-" Possession caused by the anima ... bad taste: the anima surrounds herself with inferior people ".

Jung insisted that " a state of anima possession ... must be prevented.

* Jung on the anima and animus