In Jung’s own words, instinct (“the biological pattern of behavior”) and spirit (“the mythological archetype”) are “modos agendi,” ways of acting of the archetypes (JWL: 70). It is the tension between the ‘low,’ egotistic energy of instinct on the one hand and the ‘high,’ impersonal energy of spirit on the other that fuels psychic life and creates its dynamisms (cf. ONP: 138-139).
