3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist who founded analytical psychology — developing the concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes (Shadow, Anima/Animus, Self), individuation, synchronicity, and psychological types — the most influential psychologist after Freud and the dominant intellectual presence in this entire corpus.
Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst — founder of analytical psychology — who created the concepts of archetypes, the collective unconscious, introversion/extroversion, and individuation — whose split with Freud and subsequent mystical-psychological work shaped 20th century popular psychology.
C.G. Jung's 1958 study of flying saucer reports — Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies — arguing that UFO reports, whether or not they describe physical phenomena, express a psychological truth: the mandala symbol of wholeness projected onto the skies in a time of global anxiety.