Jungian psychoanalysis, or analytical psychology, offers an approach to the psyche centered on the process of individuation—understood as the movement through which a person gradually moves toward greater consciousness, integration, and inner coherence.

It is based on the hypothesis that the unconscious is composed of two layers:

• a personal unconscious, shaped by subjective experiences, complexes, and repressed material;
• a collective unconscious, made up of archetypes-universal structures of representation and human experience.

The analytic space allows the patient to explore the manifestations of these contents—dreams, fantasies, transferential patterns, repetitions, spontaneous images—and to uncover their symbolic meaning. Symptoms are not treated as disturbances to be eliminated, but as compensatory expressions revealing inner tension or an imbalance between conscious and unconscious dynamics.

Jungian clinical work pays particular attention to:

• the analysis of dreams as regulatory or prospective messages;
• working with complexes and archetypal dynamics;
• transferential and counter-transferential phenomena as material for elaboration;
• the use of active imagination, allowing dialogue with inner images.

The aim of analytic work is a gradual transformation of the person’s relationship to themselves and to the world, a deeper integration of the Shadow and of archetypal figures, and access to a more differentiated, adaptive, and congruent way of being.