In Carl Jung's Basic Postulates of Analytical Psychology, what are his basic postulates?

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Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, developed analytical psychology, which distinguishes itself from Freud's psychoanalysis in various key concepts. While Jung did not formally list "basic postulates" in a way similar to axioms in a mathematical system, he did introduce several fundamental ideas that underpin analytical psychology. Here are some of the foundational concepts and ideas in Jung's analytical psychology:

1. **Collective Unconscious**: Unlike the personal unconscious, which contains memories, thoughts, and experiences unique to the individual, the collective unconscious contains archetypes – universally shared symbols, themes, and motifs that appear across different cultures and eras.

2. **Archetypes**: These are innate, universal prototypes for ideas and may be used to interpret observations. Examples include the Hero, the Mother, the Shadow, and the Wise Old Man.

3. **Individuation**: This is the lifelong process of becoming the person you were inherently meant to be. It's about realizing one's potential and achieving a balance between opposites within the self.

4. **Personal Unconscious**: This is made up of experiences and memories unique to the individual, which might not be currently conscious but can be brought into consciousness.

5. **Complexes**: These are clusters of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes organized around a common theme, such as a "power complex" or an "inferiority complex."

6. **Psychological Types**: Based on his observations, Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological function. This led to the idea of introversion and extraversion as dominant attitudes, and thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting as dominant functions. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) was later developed based on these typological ideas.

7. **Synchronicity**: This is the idea that events can be related by meaning rather than causality. It's a principle that accounts for meaningful coincidences, where the inner state of the individual somehow corresponds to external events.

8. **Active Imagination**: A meditative technique developed by Jung where the contents of one’s unconscious are translated into images, narrative, or personified as separate entities. It bridges the gap between the conscious and unconscious mind.

9. **Compensation**: This refers to the psyche's self-regulating ability. For instance, if an individual is too conscious or one-sided in their approach to life, the unconscious might compensate by producing dreams or behaviors that balance out this one-sidedness.

10. **Shadow**: The shadow represents the unconscious part of the personality, which contains characteristics and impulses that the conscious ego does not identify with. It's the "dark side" of the personality.

These concepts, among others, form the basis of Jung's analytical psychology. If you're interested in a deeper dive, you might consider reading some of Jung's primary texts, like "The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious" or "Psychological Types."