In transferential empathy with C.G. Jung

First, intuition is considered historically, as applied to empathic transference in analytical practice, from the first explorations of the unconscious (a coin termed in the mid-19th century) and of “rapport” to Freudian and Jungian transference practices. Jungian empathy is contextualized in a tradition that might be called Puységurian, as opposed to Mesmerist. Jung’s posthumous publications (his Memories, Dreams, Reflections and his Red Book) provide intuition with its mythical dimension: as an opening to the collective unconscious through the myth Jung calls “lived.” It is no longer merely Anschauung, which means “intuition,” but Mythosanschauung: a tangible experience of the myth, in the present.