A personal spirit or autonomous inner figure that mediates between human and divine—compelling one to growth, often through inner conflict.
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Jungian Psychology
Daimon
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inner guide
genius
The Hermit
personal spirit
guiding force
inner voice
calling
vocational pull
fate
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- Abraxas
- Acceptance of Evil
- Active Imagination
- Anima
- Animus
- Archetype
- Archetypes
- Collective Unconscious
- Compensation
- Complex
- Confrontation with the Unconscious
- Coniunctio
- Creatura
- Divine Child
- Ego
- Enantiodromia
- Eros
- Fantasy
- Forethinking
- God-Image
- Hero
- Individuation
- Inflation
- Integration
- Libido
- Logos
- Magic
- Mandala
- Mater Coelestis
- Nekyia
- Persona
- Phallos
- Philemon
- Pleroma
- Projection
- Quaternity
- Rebirth
- Sacrifice of the Hero
- Salome
- Self
- Shadow
- Spirit of the Depths
- Supreme Meaning
- Synchronicity
- The Irrational
- Transcendent Function
- Tree of Life
- Wise Old Man