Up: [[Jungian Glossary]] Created: 2024-09-05 Updated: 2025-10-23 Psyche, which is the totality of our being, both conscious and unconscious, is dedicated to wholeness and therefore always working to maintain balance. It does this by taking the one-sidedness of our conscious attitude or behaviour and compensating for it in the unconscious by taking the opposite attitude or behaviour. [[Compensation in Dreams]] is one of the easier ways to see this dynamic in action.