The map
Where the ideas come from
Each mark is a source. Filled marks are sources Jung documented using; rings are parallels with no link to Jung that we could find; squares are later work built on him. Threads run into the Jung work that drew on a source, out to work that built on it, and, dashed, from an unlinked parallel to the later Jungian who connected it.
Modern takes and deeper reading
Books, essays, research and media that carry the poster's ideas forward, refine them, test them or argue with them. Filter by region of the map or by kind.
How to read this page
The link labels
What the poster adds to Jung
Jung did pair Logos and Eros, as the principles behind animus and anima, but he assigned them to masculine and feminine consciousness. The poster places both inside every ego, which follows later post-Jungian revisions. Mythos, fed by both, is the poster's own synthesis. Jung never named Logos and Eros as the parents of myth, but he did contrast directed thinking in words with fantasy thinking in images, and he treated myth as the psyche's own speech, so the arrows sit well with his thought. Intellectual humility, spiritual humility and appropriate self-love are not Jung's terms. The closest Jungian name for the Shadow of Humility is negative inflation, and Jung's own version of appropriate self-love is the self-acceptance of “Psychotherapists or the Clergy” (1932).
The three unlabeled symbols on the map (the eclipsed brow, the held light and the wanderer) are our readings of the artwork, marked as such.
The Mythos rework
This edition ties Mythos to the depths. In Jung's terms myth is how the archetypes of the collective unconscious show themselves, so the page now treats the two as one layer seen from below and from above, with synchronicity as the bridge between them. Threads this page adds are drawn in violet; the poster's own arrows stay gold.
The depth view is this page's redrawing, not the poster's. The Self becomes the outer ring, since for Jung nothing in the psyche lies outside it. Anima and animus, missing from the poster, appear as guides between the ego and the deep, and the unus mundus sits just outside the circle because Jung offered it only as a hypothesis.
Later additions bring in post-Jungian and modern psychology. A cultural layer sits between the personal and the collective unconscious, dreams and active imagination sit on the threshold of consciousness, and another person stands at the edge, touching the Self. The evidence lens grades each region of the depth view as echoed by research, reframed by it, or contested or untested. The grades are this page's summary of the research cited in each reading, not a formal review.
Caveats
“No link found” means we found no evidence that Jung used a source. It does not prove he never read it. Jung's words are paraphrased throughout, with Collected Works (CW) volume and paragraph numbers where they are known. The collective unconscious and synchronicity remain contested, and the library includes critical work alongside sympathetic work, as well as the debate over Jung's statements and conduct in the 1930s.
This page is for study and reflection. The practices are small exercises, not therapy.