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Archetypes are universal patterns of experience and behaviour that recur across cultures, across time, and across individuals. They are the inherited structures of the human psyche — not specific memories or images, but templates that give shape to how human beings experience themselves and the world.
One of the central purposes of depth psychotherapy and Jungian analysis is self-knowledge — not as a philosophical exercise, but as a lived experience. To know who is actually living this life.
“Psychotherapy is an opportunity to learn to know yourself. What you don’t want is arriving at the end of your life and realising that you spent all of it with someone who is you — but a stranger.” — Philippe Jacquet
Individuation is the central concept in Jungian psychology — the lifelong process of becoming a whole, integrated individual. It is not about perfection. It is about the progressive integration of all aspects of the self into an authentic way of being.