Sublime

Jung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?

The Ego, Jung tells us, is that part of the psyche that we think of as "I." Our conscious intelligence. Our everyday brain that thinks, plans and runs the show of our day-to-day life. The Self, as Jung defined it, is a greater entity, which includes the Ego but also incorporates the Personal and Collective Unconscious. Dreams and intuitio

As the psychologist Carl Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

Jung, especially, developed a psychotherapy that was oriented toward soul. Unlike Freud, who viewed the unconscious as a boiling cauldron of evil impulses, Jung uncovered our lost creative impulses lying there, as well as the lost gods or mythological images that he called archetypes.

The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.