According to A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis, analysis is "a long-term dialectical relationship between two people, analyst and [client], and it is directed towards an investigation of the [client’s] unconscious, its contents and processes, in order to alleviate a psychic condition felt to be no longer tolerable because of its interferences with conscious living."

While I may suggest such techniques as verbal role-playing or meditative breathing, my overall orientation to both psychotherapy and analysis is Jungian.

1. The catalyst for deep change rarely makes itself immediately apparent—because a hidden aspect of the client's psyche stands in opposition, or is convinced the consciously-desired change is impossible.
2. The conscious personality (an essential participant if we are to function at our best, and generally referred to as the ego) attempts to mediate between a client’s inner world and the socio-physical environment.
3. In performing its mediative tasks, a person's ego has preferred, idiosyncratic modes of functioning (described by Jung in his theory of psychological types). A poor matchup between a person’s typology and life circumstances tends to produce distress.
4. Symptoms, no matter how apparently destructive, are goal-directed, i.e. attempts to resolve some problem or conflict.
5. People, as Jung once commented, "cannot stand a meaningless life." Hence an essential aim of analysis is to help clients identify and to the fullest extent compatible with reality attain what they consider meaningful.
6. The psyche possesses an inherent lifelong unconscious impetus to express, elaborate, and complete itself. Artmaking, which by symbolic means attempts to impart coherence and meaning to a universe which often seems lacking in both, constitutes an important mediative approach to existence, rather than a sign of mental disorder.

Anima  www.jungatlanta.com/anima.html

Letures on Jungian Psychology  www.nrpi.net/lecture_watsky_060921.html

Murray Stein. Jung's Map of the Soul: An Introduction. Peru, IL, Open Court Publishing Company, 1998.

C.G. Jung. Two Essays on Analytical Psychology. Volume 7 of The Collected Works. Available in paperback as a separate publication.