Schizophrenia

1. Etymology

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; complex.

2. Plain summary

Examples (exhaustive house list for this Index lemma — common schizophrenia motifs named across Jung’s essays and standard Jungian lexica; not a claim that Jung’s CW contains only these):
Sharp redirect → psychosis; split-off complexes; collective-unconscious overwhelm; association / amplification of utterance; dual via psychosis prefers only.

3. Academic elucidation

Hub entry. Authority: psychosis. No new schizophrenia leaf stamps this pass. Engage mainstream psychiatry at its best; no caricature.

4. Lexicon

Sharp (1991)

Schizophrenia. See psychosis.

(Sharp, 1991)

Samuels, Shorter & Plaut (1986) — schizophrenia under related heads (vessel; route via psychosis leaf):

schizophrenia … could be explained as (a) an overwhelming of the EGO by the contents of the collective unconscious and (b) the domination of the personality by a split-off COMPLEX or complexes… (fuller quotes live with psychosis / Samuels schizophrenia neighborhood)

(Samuels, Shorter, & Plaut, 1986)

5. CW concordance — sample, not exhaustive

See also: psychosis; complex; abaissement-du-niveau-mental; psychogenic; self; self-regulation-of-the-psyche.

References

Samuels, A., Shorter, B., & Plaut, F. (1986). A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis. Routledge.

Sharp, D. (1991). Jung lexicon: A primer of terms & concepts. Inner City Books.