Jung defines participation mystique as one of his basic definitions in Psychological Types, crediting it to Lucien Lévy-Bruhl.
Jung referred to it consistently with the French terminology rather than using the English "mystical participation" until Man and His Symbols was published after his death.
Instead of individuality we find only collective relationship or what Lévy-Bruhl calls participation mystique (Jung, [1921] 1971: par.
Jung's concept of concretism, which is the opposite of differentiating abstraction, is also closely related to participation mystique.
A volume of scholarly essays on the concept of participation mystique recently appeared under the title Shared Realities, edited by Mark Winborn.
[1] The authors included in this volume are mostly Jungian and psychoanalytic practitioners, discussing experiential, clinical and theoretical perspectives on the notion of participation mystique.