Description
In The Psychology of the Transference Jung has given an authoritative account of his handling of the transference between analyst and patient in the light of his conception of the archetypes and man’s inner life, drawing a close parallel between the modern psychotherapeutic process and the symbolical pictures in a sixteenth-century alchemical text, the Rosarium philosophorum. The bond between analyst and patient is shown to be analogous to the kinship libido between the alchemist-adept and his “mystic sister”–a link also found in the complicated kinship marriages of certain primitive societies. Kinship libido plays an essential role in individuation and in establishing an organic society based on the psychic connection of its members.
