Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts, 98)

Rating:
Summary: How Complex is the Complex?
Review: In order to understand the driving forces of our life we are compelled to identify the archetypes as they manifest themselves in our dreams and associations. Our complexes are acted out in human form through behaviours inspired by these archetypes. By the therapeutic process of examination of these behaviours we are able to diffuse and disarm these archetypal images thereby enabling new types of behaviour to evolve.
Erel Shalit gives a fascinating explanation of the mechanisms of the complex and translates his understandings by examining Franz Kafka along with other patients of his which clearly exemplify the process by which one faces,identifies and diffuses the elements of the shadow which drive one's life.
Just as the complex is "the messenger of the gods, or the archetypes, rather than the ego, Erel (which means angel who goes down from the heavens to contact human souls) Shalit is the messenger of a concept so complex yet made so accessable to our understanding by his methodical yet poetic description of the very motifs which grip our total existance.