When Loss Reorders the Inner World.

Grief often marks the moment when this deeper layer of the psyche is constellated. What begins as a personal loss—my beloved, my body, my future—frequently expands into something larger and more unsettling. Patients describe a sense that the world itself has changed; familiar meanings collapse; time feels distorted; identity loosens. From a Jungian lens, this is not regression, but initiation. Loss presses the psyche beyond personal biography and into archetypal territory, where death is no longer only an event but a fundamental dimension of existence.