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Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness.
For both men and women, to look honestly at romantic love is a heroic journey. It forces us to look not only at the beauty and potential in romantic love but also at the contradictions and illusions we carry around inside us at the unconscious level. Heroic journeys always lead through dark valleys and difficult confrontations. But if we persevere, we find a new possibility of consciousness.
But, though a dream expresses the dynamics within an individual, a myth expresses the dynamics within the collective mind of a society, culture, or race.
When a man develops the strengths of his inner feminine, it actually completes his maleness. He becomes more fully male as he becomes more fully human.
If we are awake, we see this in our own society. When a man uses a woman’s feelings to get power over her, when a man starts a friendship only so he can sell something to his friend, when the advertiser on television tells us that we will buy his product if we “really love our children,” each of them is cynically putting love and feeling in the service of power and profit.
Power without love becomes brutality. Feeling without masculine strength becomes woolly sentimentality.
disasters of life are often the genius of the unconscious, forcing our egos into a new experience of the self.
One of the great strengths of the inner feminine is the ability to let go, to give up ego control, to stop trying to control the people and the situation, to turn the situation over to fate and wait on the natural flow of the universe.
