Analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung in terms of psychology of religion; and god as an archetype of collective unconscious

As evidenced from the studies and researches in social sciences, in all phases of history, from ancient times on, human beings have always been through a restless urge for a being, transcendent and absolute. Having finally accepted a particular belief and concept of God, people tend to contact with this absolute in accordance with the creeds of their belief. Regarding this attitude, the individual, who communicates with the absolute by means of the sacraments of his belief, reflects the requirements ofreligion on to hisattitudes and behaviors. As a psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung studied on this deeply engaging phenomenon. Jung, who based his researches and studies on his observations during his travels across various geographies besides relying on his conclusions out of his interdisciplinary approaches, asserted that all these religious attitudes were derived from the psyche. In this respect, from a psychologist's point of view, Jung empirically evaluated these phenomena of religion and God, which have a prominent influence on human psyche. During his studies, he claimed that these two phenomena were psychic realities and archetypes that belonged to collective unconscious. According to him, these phenomena can be explained as psychic processes occurring out of an experience called "numinous." Furthermore, Jung puts forward the idea of God as an archetype of collective unconscious under two separate titles as an archetypal form and archetypal content. He asserted that, deeply rooted in the psyche, the contents of God-Image manifest by means of symbols. Thus, regarding the relationship between the archetype of Selfhood and the archetype of God, he suggested that God-Image arises in consciousness with the experience of Selfhood that can be achieved by the Process of Individuation,which he also defined as Integration. Keywords: Analytical Psychology, Psyche, Conscious, Ego, Unconscious, Complexes, Collective Unconscious, Archetypes, Persona, Shadow, Anima-Animus, Selfhood, Religion, God-Image, God, Individuation.