Jungian Therapy, Jungian Analysis, New York

Apopotraic

from Jung Lexicon by Daryl Sharp

Apotropaic. Descriptive of “magical thinking,” based on the desire to depotentiate the influence of an object or person. Apotropaic actions are characteristic of introversion as a mode of psychological orientation.

I have seen an introverted child who made his first attempts to walk only after he had learned the names of all the objects in the room he might touch.[“Psychological Types,” CW6, par. 897.]