Analyses Guide — Embracing the Shadow
Embracing the Shadow

4 Jungian Analyses

Jungian analytical psychology offers different clinical tools. Each work begins from different material and flows differently. You can choose what your mind brings today.

Shadow Projection Analysis

First gate · Entry-level Jungian work

When to start

When a person keeps irritating you, or the same conflict repeats in a relationship.

Starting material

The person who irritates · who you hate · who oddly attracts you.

Tool

von Franz's 5 stages of withdrawal of projection — examining how what you see in them lives in you.

Where it leads

"The quality I hated in them was actually a part of me" — recognition.

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Dream Analysis

Parallel · Mid-stage

When to start

When you have a memorable dream, or recurring dreams of similar kind.

Starting material

A dream from last night or recent.

Tool

Jung's 4-stage analysis (description → amplification → compensation+prospective → assimilation) + 4-act drama structure.

Where it leads

The real meaning your dream is moving toward + how to apply it daily.

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Active Imagination

Deepening · Meeting dream figures

When to start

When you want direct dialogue with the figures or images that have appeared in dreams.

Starting material

An inner figure / image / personified emotion that arises.

Tool

Jung's Active Imagination — "Who are you? What do you want to teach me?" Dialogue with a personality.

Where it leads

A living relationship with inner figures.

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Free Deep Exploration

Integration · Open exploration

When to start

When you want to follow whatever the mind brings today, without a set topic.

Starting material

Open — whatever you bring today.

Tool

Free association + complex/archetype identification — follow what arises, discover your own patterns.

Where it leads

Recognition of self-patterns + the next step in individuation.

Start Free Deep

Clinical depth sequence — reference

In Jungian psychology, the usual sequence is below. But there's no fixed path — your own flow matters most.

Shadow Dream Active Imagination Free Deep

Early (1st gate): Shadow — same gender, relatively easy to recognize.
Parallel: Dream analysis — multi-layered view of the unconscious with shadow work.
Deepening: Active imagination — direct encounter with dream figures.
Integration: Free deep — next stage of individuation toward integration.

All analyses run in 50-minute units.

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