I’m doing a course in Jungian Studies at the moment and a theme that came up several times this week was Jung’s concept of the “transcendent function”.  Essentially this is something (anything) that emerges from a  tension between opposites.  In Jungian theory this is generally a tension that is fundamentally between the ego and the unconscious.   Most of us would experience it as a state of stuckness, like depression.   We would probably identify it consciously as a practical situation like a decision that is proving impossible to make, or we might become aware of it as an emotional situation where different needs or desires [...] Read more »