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 past is not dead; it is not even past. And what we resist will persist—as haunting.

We may add to that: what we resist in time becomes pathology, either through platitudinous, superficial lives or embodied as addictions, depressions, or obsessions with those objects upon which the unlived life has been projected. We may confess instead that what we resist will persist, as haunting.

[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

survival and well-being: abandonment and being overwhelmed.

William Faulkner, who once opined that “the past is not dead, it is not even past.”

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

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

So, told or untold, the archaic stories ineluctably manifest through our unconscious choices, our aversions, our preoccupations, our projections, and our agendas and replay themselves in the recognizable patterns which constitute the human story.