The Way of the Dream by Marie-Louise von Franz (p.Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Get on with your job." They are really making a conceited dance out of calling themselves inferior and incapable. How do you think I can do this? You know, I'm not capable, I'm so stupid, I can't think," and so on. Sometimes people come in and say, "Oh well, you know, I can't do it. Inferiority is also inflation and, therefore, gets on people's nerves. One wants to be a great person and knows one isn't. If one feels inferior, that's really ambition a person wants to be more than one is. Feelings of inferiority are just a veiled inflation. If so, one is probably a bit overestimating one-self, or underestimating oneself for with an inflation a person may have feelings of either superiority or inferiority. To know if one has an inflation, a person has only to see if he or she gets on other people's nerves. ![]() “Any lack of balance in this respect, either too far below or too far above the mark, has an irritating effect upon the surroundings. They have the feeling somehow and somewhere, but not just when they ought to produce it.” It is not that they have no feeling, but that they cannot express it at the appropriate moment. Thinking types are very often looked on by other people as having no feeling this is absolutely not true. They not only look very cold, but they really do not feel anything! They had all the feeling before, when at home, but now in the appropriate situation they cannot pull it out. It can happen that when he hears that the husband of a friend has died he cries, but when he meets the widow not a word of pity will come out. For instance, a thinking type often cannot express his feelings normally and in the appropriate manner at the right time. “Many people discover relatively soon in life that the realm of their inferior function is where they are emotional, touchy and unadapted, and they therefore acquire the habit of covering up this part of their personality with a surrogate pseudo-reaction. Normally, the anima does not take a man by the hand and lead him right up to Paradise she puts him first into a hot cauldron where he is nicely roasted for a while.” When thinking of the anima as the soul guide, we are apt to think of Beatrice leading Dante up to Paradise, but we should not forget that he experienced that only after he had gone through Hell. In psychological language the situation without issue, which the anima arranges with great skill in a man's life, is meant to drive him into a condition in which he is capable of experiencing the Self. ![]() In religious language you could say that the situation without issue is meant to force the man to rely on an act of God. But if he is ethical enough to suffer to the core of his personality, then generally because of the insolubility of the conscious situation, the Self manifests. Naturally, if a man says, "Oh well, then I shall just let everything go and make no decision, but just protract and wriggle out of ," the whole thing is equally wrong, for then naturally nothing happens. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision. It is meant to be a situation without solution: the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put ego-consciousness up against the wall, so that the man has to realise that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. ![]() “Jung has said that to be in a situation where there is no way out, or to be in a conflict where there is no solution, is the classical beginning of the process of individuation.
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