Solutio et Coagulatio in analytical psychology
One man’s view of the current situation in our discipline, 1985
By Murray SteinEnglish
In this 1985 article, the author examines Jungian identity, suggesting that it is going through a “mid-life crisis”. The three currents of Jungianism, the classical school, the developmental school, and the archetypal school, have failed to reach a consensus. Freud’s influence has been repressed. The Solutio and Coagulatio phases are necessary to attain a new synthesis. A process involving assimilation and accommodation is at work, but the transformation has not yet occurred, and the question of our disappearance has arisen.