Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives

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 even more, and paradoxically, that repetition to feel our chosen pain is still preferable to reexperiencing the primal pain anew.

Then damage is not “just what happens,” but rather is the residue that keeps on keeping on.

Of all his insights, the complex is perhaps the most practical of his gifts.

Part of why we get stuck is that there is a complex blocking our will, our intentionality, at least as strong as our hope for moving forward. Sometimes resolution, intentionality, willfulness, or concerted, sustained effort is enough to get unstuck, and we get through the blockage.

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

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.

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

An unconscious present is a story which will insist on being told and will spill into our biographies.