the persistence of the past.

Thus, what is most troubling about complexes is their capacity to remove a discriminating judgment from this moment of consciousness, assert, even impose, a historic view generated from an earlier, more likely disempowered place in our history.

Remember that Jung said when he heard the word mother he thought unreliable and when he heard father he thought powerless. Where did he come by these associations other than by having had a history in which these entities were loaded up with valences?

The present is haunted by the archetypal dynamics which remind us that any story untold is an unconscious present.

we are not just programmed to repetition, but that at some level we perversely choose it in order to exercise a measure

things of that sort. They're not actually alive in us, but they're rooted there all the same, and we can't rid ourselves of them. I've only to pick up a newspaper, and when I read it I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. I should think there must be ghosts all over the country—as countless as grains

[Are we] related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of [one's] life . . . If we understand and feel that here in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is

There's always someone haunting someone—haunting someone And you know who I am Though I never leave my name or number I'm locked inside of you . . .

But I'm inclined to think that we're all ghosts . . . it's not only the things that we've inherited from our fathers and mothers that live on in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and old dead beliefs, and