Carlos Byington studied Psychoanalysis and undertook Freudian analysis before training to become a Jungian analyst in Zurich. This experience made him aware of the huge gap left in Depth Psychology by the abrupt separation between Freud, Jung and Adler.
Relating these different theories and creating Jungian Symbolic Psychology, Byington brought together many concepts formulated by Freud and Adler within the archetypal frame conceived by Jung. He also formulated new concepts, which show the systemic psychological individual and collective functioning within the symbolic dimension. An example is the archetype of alterity seen as an archetypal pattern of dialectical relationship between polarities.
Jungian Symbolic Psychology, based on Jungian concepts of symbol and shadow and on the Freudian concepts of fixation and defense mechanism, originated Jungian Symbolic Psychopathology. |