The Role of the Brain in Individuation

Abstract The mystery of the role of the brain in the formation of consciousness is the subject of endless philosophical and neuroscientific speculation. The ongoing, intertwined processes of the unconscious and the ego, what Jung defines as that which creates consciousness, opens the inquiry as to the role of the structures and functions of the brain in individuation. The purpose of this paper is to examine what Carl Jung thought of the existence of neural correlates in the individuation processes of psyche.