analytic psychology /an′əlit″ik/ , 1. the system in which phenomena such as sensations and feelings are analyzed and classified by introspective rather than by experimental methods. Compare experimental psychology. 2. a system of analyzing the psyche according to the concepts developed by Carl Gustav Jung. It differs from the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud in stressing a collective unconscious and a mystic, religious factor in the development of the personal unconscious while minimizing the role of sexual influence on early emotional and psychological development. Also called Jungian psychology.
