A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis .

Review.

For clear, succinct overviews of Jungian concepts, there are few books as handy as Samuels, Shorter and Plaut’s A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis.

This small book (about 170 pages) offers explanatory, Jungian definitions for subjects including: active imagination, anima and animus, complex, consciousness, depth psychology, ego, evil, Great Mother, identification, individuation, mandala, participation mystique, personification, psyche, shadow, symbol, typology, and many more.

Synchronicity:
Repeated experiences that indicated events do not always obey the rules of time, space and causality led Jung to search for what might lie beyond those rules. He developed the concept of synchronicity which he defined in several ways …

— A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis p. 146