Analytical psychology or
Jungian psychology is a school of
psychology that originated from the ideas of Swiss psychiatrist
Carl Jung. Analytical psychology emphasizes the primary importance of the individual
psyche and the personal quest for wholeness. It recognizes the importance of the symbolic in human life, and emphasizes such concepts as the
personal unconscious and the
collective unconscious, the
archetype, the
complex, the
persona, the
ego, the
shadow, the
anima and animus, the
self, and
individuation. Jung's theories have been elaborated and investigated by such figures as
Toni Wolff,
Marie-Louise von Franz,
Jolande Jacobi,
Aniela Jaffé,
Erich Neumann,
James Hillman, and
Anthony Stevens.