Rapport Rapport names a feeling of agreement between oneself and others. Related: projection; transference; participation; rational / irrational standpoints.
Quaternity Quaternity (Latin *quaternitas*, a set of four) names a four-fold image—usually square or circular and symmetrical—that psychologically points toward wholeness. Related: mandala; temenos; cross; circl
Psychosis Psychosis names an extreme dissociation of the personality in which unconscious complexes disconnect completely from consciousness. Related: schizophrenia; neurosis; complex; psychogenic; abaissement-
Psychopomp Psychopomp (Greek: soul-guide) names a psychic factor that mediates unconscious contents to consciousness, often personified as wise old man/woman or helpful animal. Related: Hermes; anima / animus; m
Psychological types Psychological types is Sharp’s synonym redirect to type and typology. The Index’s living lemma for attitudes, functions, and the personal equation is typology. Related: introversion; extraversion; pri
Psychogenic Psychogenic describes mental disturbances having a psychological rather than physiological origin. Related: psychogenesis; neurosis; psyche; psychoid (border, not synonym).
Psychization Psychization names the process of reflection whereby an instinct or unconscious content is made conscious. Related: instinct; psyche; psychoid; consciousness; libido / psychic-energy.
Psychic energy Psychic energy is Sharp’s synonym redirect to libido. Samuels treats *energy* and *libido* as interchangeable (CW 6 ¶778 pointer—verify). Related: energic; progression; depression.
Psyche Psyche (Greek ψυχή; German *Seele*—no single English equivalent) names the totality of all psychological processes, conscious and unconscious. Related: objective-psyche / collective-unconscious; consc
Provisional life Provisional life names an attitude toward life that is more or less imaginary, not rooted in the here and now, commonly associated with puer-aeternus psychology.
Progression Progression names the daily advance of psychological adaptation, the opposite of regression. Related: forward movement of life / libido; not identical with individuation.
Primordial image Primordial image is Sharp’s synonym redirect to archetypal-image. Samuels: *primordial image* → ARCHETYPE. Parallel stub: image-primordial.
Primitive Primitive describes the original or undifferentiated human psyche. Related: archaic; primordial (Jung’s sense).
Primary function Primary function (also superior function) is the most differentiated of the four psychological functions—the one used most automatically because it comes most naturally. Compare inferior-function.
Prima materia Prima materia (alchemy: “original matter”) denotes psychologically both the instinctual foundation of life and the raw material of analysis—dreams, emotions, conflicts, etc. Related: massa confusa; ch
Power complex Power complex names a group of emotionally toned ideas associated with an attitude that seeks to subordinate all influences and experience to the supremacy of the personal ego.
Possession Possession names identification of consciousness with an unconscious content or complex. Most common forms: by the shadow and by contrasexual complexes (anima/animus).
Philosophers' stone Philosophers' stone (alchemy) is a metaphor for successful transmutation of base metal into gold; psychologically, an archetypal image of wholeness. Related: lapis; coniunctio.
Personification Personification names the tendency of psychic contents or complexes to take on a distinct personality, separate from the ego. Related: automatic writing; active-imagination; spirits (naive reading).
Personality Personality names aspects of the soul as it functions in the world. Related: individuality; differentiation from collective values embodied in the persona.
Personal unconscious Personal unconscious names the personal layer of the unconscious, distinct from the collective-unconscious. Related: repression; subliminal perception; contents not yet ripe for consciousness.
