The therapeutic approach in circular epistemologies is not based on the attempt to trace ‘the cause’ or ‘causes’ but to connect meaningfully with the contextual patterns within which they are located. Jung referred to the ‘sense of purpose’ rather than clear explanation when he was addressing these relations and clarified that one cannot analyse, translate or interpret the archetype or its influence on the person (in a reductive way) but one has to relate and connect with it (in a constructive, purposive and teleological way):
