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This paper contemplates different experiences of the self, on the one hand authentic and meaningful and on the other hand empty and without meaning, with reference to Jung’s ideas concerning a God-image. Jung’s views on Christ and Antichrist contained in his paper Christ a symbol for the self will be discussed, and the question of imitation will be reviewed in the context of his imitatio Christi as a symbol for the work of individuation and of certain clinical pictures involving imitative processes, including Winnicott’s “false-self”, Hester Solomon’s “as-if” personality, and Thomas Ogden’s “autistic-contiguous position”.