Lapsus and Truth

From the first paragraph of his writings on the transcendent function, and, indeed, while in the very process of referring to mathematical language, Jung confuses the concepts of transcendent and complex. The lapsus nevertheless generates a powerful truth effect. This is the effect we shall try to understand by going back to the source of the concept of transcendence according to Leibniz in both the geometrical and the arithmetical senses. Then, in a border region of knowledge undoubtedly related to the existence of the Unus mundus, we shall distinguish the outline of a new interpretation of the Self as a limit-concept, which satisfactorily redefines both the epistemology and the anthropology of Jung, and provides a rational connection, in the psychological field, between the two realms Jung ceaselessly reasserted, of the empirical and the “supra-empirical.”