The regulating center of the psyche that encompasses both conscious and unconscious—the goal of individuation, often symbolized by the divine child or mandala.
Back to Glossary
Jungian Psychology
Self
Related concepts
The World
wholeness
center
totality
God-image within
inner completeness
psychic totality
ultimate integration
More in Jungian Psychology
- Abraxas
- Acceptance of Evil
- Active Imagination
- Anima
- Animus
- Archetype
- Archetypes
- Collective Unconscious
- Compensation
- Complex
- Confrontation with the Unconscious
- Coniunctio
- Creatura
- Daimon
- 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
- Shadow
- Spirit of the Depths
- Supreme Meaning
- Synchronicity
- The Irrational
- Transcendent Function
- Tree of Life
- Wise Old Man