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From Symbolic Proliferation to Structural Coherence A Comprehensive Clarification and Re-Architecture of Jungian Psychology Through Multidimensional Self-Regulation

Authors: Chu Nguyễn Đức Dũng, Brandon Chu;

From Symbolic Proliferation to Structural Coherence A Comprehensive Clarification and Re-Architecture of Jungian Psychology Through Multidimensional Self-Regulation

Abstract

Carl Jung’s analytical psychology continues to exert wide influence across psychotherapy, cultural theory, and popular discourse. Yet its contemporary utility is increasingly undermined by symbolic excess, conceptual redundancy, and unresolved metaphysical assumptions. Jungian constructs such as the Self, ego, shadow, anima/animus, psychic energy, transcendent function, synchronicity, and individuation are frequently treated as discrete ontological entities rather than as overlapping descriptions of functional psychological processes. This has resulted in theoretical mystification, clinical misapplication, and the conflation of symbolic language with mechanism. This paper offers a comprehensive clarification and re-organization of Jungian psychology in two stages. First, it presents a structurally faithful architectural clarification of Jung’s original model (Model A), translating symbolic terminology into an explicit organizational system while preserving conceptual intent. Second, it introduces a re-architected multidimensional framework (Model B) grounded in intrinsic self-regulation, temporal sequencing, and dimensional organization, integrating prior work on psychological architecture, individuation, time dynamics, and pathology (Chu Nguyễn Đức Dũng, 2025a; 2025b; 2025c; 2025d). By consolidating Jung’s proliferated terminology into functionally coherent categories and situating them within a multidimensional psychological architecture, this paper preserves the depth of Jungian insight while restoring conceptual rigor, clinical safety, and theoretical coherence. Permissions NoticeThis work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Any use involving adaptation, modification, translation, educational deployment, therapeutic application, derivative modeling, or inclusion in external platforms beyond unchanged archival hosting requires explicit written permission from the author.

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Multidimensional psychology, Jungian psychology, Depth psychology, Non-ontological psychology, Clinical applicability, Conceptual clarification, Clinical psychology theory, Psychological coherence, Post-Jungian theory, Symbolic versus functional models, Psychological architecture, Structural psychology, Psychological integration, Psychological organization

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