Creating sensitivities: Epistemology and method in analytical psychology

Abstract

The article proposes a theoretical revision of the contribution of C.G. Jung for the history of Psychology and its role in Human Sciences. The adopted perspective develops the concept of personal equation and its relevance for the theory of psychological types. It also elucidates the epistemology and method of analytical psychology departing from Jung's theoretical principles. The conclusion states that the making of science in psychology under such perspective is linked to a method that respects the researcher's subjectivity and the integrity of the subject of research, imbued with epistemological principles such as psychic structure, finalism and synchronicity, and it is permeated by a metaphorical symbolical language that unites image and words in meaning narratives.