Can Unconscious Themes Be Altered?

Another Dive Into the Pragmatics of Psychoanalysis (Vol. 3; Issue 29)

Last week, I chased two simple ideas related to how psychoanalytic psychotherapy works. It invites patients to revisit, relive, and then relieve the pain of dissociated mental content. Such depth psychotherapy also encourages patients to break repetitive, self-destructive psycho-behavioral patterns.

This week, Carl Jung’s (1952/1993) idea of synchronici…