The Jungian journey: Setting and digressions

If every therapeutic approach intends to adhere to a strict, clearly defined setting which enables both the patient and psychoanalyst to position themselves and identify boundaries and limits, the specificity of the Jungian way raises questions, as much in relation to its emblematic figure Carl Gustav Jung, as in relation to his corpus of references. Actually, although the setting, as he defined it, is supposed to mark out what is inside and form it, bringing it into clear focus and existence, the psychology of the depths certainly seems determined to overflow from the borders of the setting, constantly extending them. By resorting and returning to what has been left out by philosophical tradition, Christian dogma, or Freud, Jungianism permits a renewal and reorientation of thinking, and therefore the way in which the soul or the Self can be approached. More largely, by his deviations, Jung suggests a different way of encountering life.