Jung’s exploration of Gnosticism significantly shaped his understanding of the Self as the totality of the psyche, a concept central to analytical psychology. In Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, he draws a direct parallel between the Gnostic figure of the Anthropos and the psychological Self. In Gnostic mythology, the Anthropos represents the primordial, unified human being—symbolizing a state of wholeness that encompasses both the divine and human, the spiritual and the material. Jung saw this figure as an archetype of the Self, which, in his psychology, is the integration of both conscious and unconscious elements of the psyche.