Carl Gustav Jung and India, more than a hundred years later

This article describes Carl Gustav Jung’s historic links with India, and the way in which analytical psychology is positioned in India today, more than eight decades after his journey. It summarizes how Jung pioneered a cultural approach in studying the unconscious, through inquiries into alien knowledge traditions, actual experience of culture, recognizing transcultural affinities as well as ambivalences and gaps between analytical psychology and other traditions. Jung’s encounter of India reveals the complexities of cross-cultural explorations, the contrasts and oppositions between cultures, and their rich bearings and outcomes.