American Jungian analyst who wrote Ego and Archetype, The Anatomy of the Psyche, and The Christian Archetype — providing the most detailed Jungian analysis of Christian symbolism (particularly the Mass and Christ as a symbol of the Self) and the most precise formulation of the ego-Self relationship.
Articulated the ego-Self axis as the central dynamic of the individuation process — the Self is the ordering center of the psyche and the ego's relationship to it is the measure of psychological health — and showed how the entire Christian symbolic system is an exact map of the psychological transformation the Self requires.
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