Following Nietzsche, Jung was the first psychologist to postulate that there are two centres within the psyche. In addition to our Ego, the conscious centre of the psyche, or what we think of as 'I', there is also the greater Self, a deeper, intelligence that we remain largely unconscious of.

Matter of Heart is a compelling and inspiring film portrait of Carl Gustav Jung, a man whose extraordinary genius and humanity reached far beyond the sometimes exclusive realm of psychiatry into redefining the essential nature of who we are and what we hope to become. More than a linear biography, the film presents a fuller perspective on this analyst, healer, friend and mentor, through the skilful interweaving of rare home movies, valuable archival footage and a wealth of interviews with such notables as Sir Laurens van der Post, Marie-Louise von Franz and Joseph Henderson, M.D.