Carl Jung and "Compensation" [Lexicon] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and "Compensation" [Lexicon] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Compensation: A natural process aimed at establishing or maintaining balance within the psyche. The activity of consciousness is selective. Selection demands direction. But direction requires the exclusion of everything irrelevant. This is bound to make the conscious orientation one-sided. The contents that are excluded and inhibited by the chosen direction sink into the …