When the meaning gets lost in the body: psychosomatic disturbances as a failure of the transcendent function.

Explores severe physical symptoms exhibited by patients at crucial stages of their analysis, which tend to occur when a big change is foretold in dreams or following interpretative work aimed at providing the patient with insight into his major psychic conflict. C.J. Jung's theory of the bipolarity of the archetypes; Transcendent function and symbolic functioning; Psychologist Michael Fordham's contribution to the new developments in Jungian theory; Psychosomatic states and solutions.