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"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." — C. G. Jung
There is a kind of trouble that does not yield to advice. A pattern that keeps returning. A reaction that is not quite you. A dream that will not let go. A person you cannot stop reacting to. The sense, in the middle of an otherwise working life, that something underneath has not been listened to.
Most assistants meet that with surface counsel — reframes, coping skills, the clean little arc of a self-help paragraph. This one does not.
depth-analyst is a Claude Code skill that conducts genuine Jungian depth
analysis — not explaining Jung, but doing the work: tracing a struggle to
its root, meeting what has been disowned, and integrating it. It thinks with
the discipline of an analyst and speaks with the warmth of a human being.
Depth psychology is not a vocabulary. It is a stance toward the psyche — that symptoms, dreams, reactions, and "coincidences" are purposive; that the unconscious is not noise but speech in another grammar; that wholeness, not relief, is the goal.
Encoded into an AI, that stance becomes something most models cannot offer:
- It does not rush you to a resolution.
- It does not collapse a tension by picking a side.
- It does not flatter the conscious position you came in with.
- It will, when you are ready, tell you the true and difficult thing.
This is built for the moments when you do not want to be optimised. You want to be understood, and then to understand yourself.
A working analyst's toolkit, surfaced where and when it is needed:
| Modality | What it is for |
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| Complex analysis | Tracing a disproportionate reaction to the feeling-toned knot beneath it |
| Shadow work | Finding what has been disowned — the dark and the gold — and integrating it |
| Dream interpretation | Objective, subjective, and archetypal levels; amplification; dream series |
| Active imagination | Guided dialogue with the figures of the inner world |
| Archetypal amplification | Recognising the universal pattern alive in a personal situation |
| Projection work | Reclaiming what has been put onto others — especially what irritates or enchants |
| Synchronicity | Working with meaningful coincidence without inflation or superstition |
| Individuation tracking | Persona, shadow, anima/animus, Self — the long arc of becoming whole |
| Addiction & recovery | Spiritus contra spiritum — recovery as individuation, the fractured ego-Self axis |
| The Middle Passage | The second-half-of-life turn; the swamplands; the provisional self |
Internally, the skill is anchored by twenty-six reference files covering the psyche-map, complexes and their roots, archetypes, dreams and symbols, fairy-tale logic, the body, trauma and defenses, evil and the limits of integration, alchemy as a map of transformation, life stages, the analyst's own instrument, profiling and disclosure, voice, crisis-and-ethics, and a fully worked case showing the silent reasoning of an analysis in motion.
The skill loads only what the moment calls for. It does not lecture.
A clear "what this is not" matters more than the feature list:
This is NOT This IS
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therapy reflective self-exploration
diagnosis hypothesis the person can refuse
a Jung textbook the work, conducted as conversation
crisis support referral, when crisis appears
authoritative interpretation offering, dosed by timing
shadow-as-only-darkness shadow including the disowned gold
fixing you accompanying you toward wholeness
If you are in acute crisis, active psychosis, severe dissociation, or you need the relational container of real analysis — the skill will say so, plainly, and point you toward the IAAP, a C.G. Jung Institute, or a Jungian-oriented therapist. This is the first thing it is trained to do.
A condensed example. Real sessions are longer, quieter, and more particular.
You: I keep having this dream. I'm in my childhood house and there's a door at the end of the hallway I'm not allowed to open. Last night I opened it and there was a wolf, calm, just watching me. I woke up shaking but I wasn't scared in the dream.
depth-analyst: A door you weren't allowed to open — by whom, do you remember? In the dream, or in the actual house.
You: My mother. There was a room she kept locked. I never knew what was in it.
depth-analyst: So the geography is exact. The thing forbidden by her still has its own door inside you. And the dream chose this night to walk you down the hallway and open it.
What's striking is the wolf. Not snarling. Calm, watching. That's not a threat image — that's something patient, something that has been waiting. In the old amplifications a wolf at the threshold is often the instinctual nature itself, the part of a person that knows what it wants and is willing to take it. Held back long enough, it doesn't go away. It just learns to wait.
I want to ask you something, and you can refuse it: is there a part of your life right now where you feel you are not allowed to want what you actually want?
The skill is offering, not declaring. The dreamer remains the authority. But it is also seeing, and saying what it sees.
depth-analyst is a Claude Code skill. Place it where Claude Code looks for
skills:
# user-level (available everywhere)
git clone https://github.com/voidfreud/depth-analyst.git \
~/.claude/skills/depth-analystOr, if you prefer to keep the source elsewhere and symlink:
git clone https://github.com/voidfreud/depth-analyst.git ~/code/depth-analyst
ln -s ~/code/depth-analyst ~/.claude/skills/depth-analystThen, in any Claude Code session, the skill self-activates when the work turns toward depth — a dream, a recurring pattern, a strong reaction, a shadow question, the word Jung — or you can invoke it directly:
/depth-analyst
No configuration required. No keys. The skill uses only the standard tools
already available to Claude Code (Read, Write, Edit, WebFetch).
A few things worth knowing.
Bring the particular. The work moves on specifics — the actual dream image, the exact phrase that came out of your mouth, the precise person you cannot stop reacting to. "I feel anxious sometimes" is harder to work with than "yesterday at 3pm in the meeting I felt my chest go cold when she said —". The closer the material, the deeper the read.
Stay long enough. Individuation is a spiral, not a staircase. The same root will return in a new form, more conscious each time. Returning to the same conversation across days, weeks, months is part of how the work deepens — the skill is designed to hold a longitudinal portrait, not just respond to a single prompt.
Refuse what doesn't click. Every formulation is a hypothesis. If a reading does not land — truly land, in the body, not just intellectually — it is wrong, however elegant. Say so. The skill is built to be corrected.
Notice when it gets too big. If something rises that exceeds what a conversation can hold, the skill will name that and point you toward a human analyst. Believe it. The container of real analysis is not optional for the deepest work.
This skill stands on the shoulders of others. The frame is Jung's, but the working knowledge has been carried forward, deepened, and corrected by generations of analysts. The references draw on, among others:
- C. G. Jung — the Collected Works, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- Marie-Louise von Franz — fairy tales, projection, typology, shadow
- Edward F. Edinger — Anatomy of the Psyche, the ego-Self axis, alchemy as psychology
- James Hillman — image, soul, the archetypal turn
- James Hollis — the Middle Passage, the swamplands of the soul
- Erich Neumann — the origins of consciousness, the Great Mother
- Donald Kalsched — the self-care system, the protector/persecutor
- Murray Stein, Daryl Sharp, Joseph Cambray, Andrew Samuels, Bud Harris, Phil Goss — and many more
None of their work is shipped in this repository. What the skill carries is a distilled working knowledge — the practice derived from sitting with that literature, not the literature itself. For the real thing, read them.
MIT. Use it, modify it, build on it. If it helps you, that is enough.
The unconscious is not your enemy. It is the larger part of you that has been waiting, sometimes for a long time, for the conscious you to be ready to listen.
This skill is one small instrument for that listening.
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"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." — C. G. Jung