Symbiosis Symbiosis names a psychological state where contents of one’s personal unconscious are experienced in another person. Related: projection; soul-image; introversion / extraversion.
Supraordinate personality Supraordinate personality names an aspect of the psyche superior to and transcending the ego—Jung usually describes it as the self. Related: total man; ego as part to whole.
Superior function Superior function is Sharp’s synonym redirect to primary-function (most differentiated function). Compare inferior-function.
Subtle body Subtle body names the somatic unconscious—a transcendental concept of the mind–body meeting place. Related: psychoid; psyche–matter; somatic unconscious.
Subjective psyche Subjective psyche is Sharp’s synonym redirect to personal-unconscious. Related: subjective-level; collective-unconscious.
Subjective level Subjective level names the approach to dreams and images where pictured persons or situations are read as symbolic representations of factors in the subject’s own psyche. Compare objective-level. Rela
Splitting Splitting names the dissociation of the personality marked by attitudes and behavior patterns determined by complexes. Related: dissociation; neurosis; psychosis; schizophrenia.
Soul-image Soul-image names the representation, in dreams or other unconscious products, of the inner personality—usually contrasexual. Related: anima / animus; soul; projection; persona; symbiosis.
Soul Soul names a clearly demarcated functional complex in the psyche—best described as a “personality”—distinct from psyche as totality of all psychic processes. Related: anima / animus; persona; soul-ima
Self-regulation of the psyche Self-regulation of the psyche names the psyche’s ongoing compensatory relationship between consciousness and the unconscious—not mere reaction to outer events. Related: compensation; adaptation; neuro
Schizophrenia Schizophrenia is Sharp’s clinical synonym redirect to psychosis for house Index purposes (extreme dissociation / split complexes). Related: dementia praecox (historical); abaissement-du-niveau-mental;
Sacrifice Sacrifice (to make sacred; also forgo / renounce) psychologically names the need to give up the world of childhood, often signaled by regression of energy. Related: renunciation; self; god-image; reli
Sacred marriage Sacred marriage (*hieros gamos*) is Sharp’s synonym redirect to coniunctio. Related: sponsus/sponsa; Sol–Luna; mystic marriage.
Repression Repression names the unconscious suppression of psychic contents incompatible with the attitude of consciousness. Related: shadow; resistance; systematic amnesia; complex.
Religious attitude Religious attitude names, psychologically, an attitude informed by careful observation of and respect for invisible forces and personal experience. Related: numinosum; creed vs religion; self; god-ima
Regressive restoration of the persona Regressive restoration of the persona names what can happen after a major collapse in the conscious attitude: the person patches a smaller social face and lives below capacity. Related: persona; regre
Regression Regression names the backward movement of libido to an earlier mode of adaptation, often with infantile fantasies and wishes. Compare progression. Related: depression; individuation; rebirth.
Reflection Reflection (*reflexio*: bending back) names mental activity concentrating on a content of consciousness—an instinct encompassing religion and the search for meaning. Related: psychization; rational; i
Reductive Reductive (literally “leading back”) describes interpretations of dreams and neurosis in terms of outer-life events, especially childhood. Compare constructive and final. Related: mechanistic; causal;
Rebirth Rebirth names a process experienced as renewal or transformation of the personality—psychic reality beyond sense measurement. Related: individuation; transformation; night-sea-journey; nigredo.
