"[The ego-Self] axis is the gateway or path of communication between the conscious personality and the archetypal psyche. Damage to [it] impairs or destroys the connection between conscious and unconscious." Edinger: Ego and Archetype p 3
"Since the Self is the central archetype, it subordinates all other archetypal dominants. It surrounds and contains them." Edinger: Ego and Archetype p 38
"The Self as the center and totality of the psyche which is able to reconcile all opposites and be considered as the organ of acceptance par excellence." Edinger: Ego and Archetype p 40
"...the experience of the supporting aspect of the archetypal psyche is most likely to occur when the ego has exhausted its own resources and is aware of its essential impotence by itself." Edinger: Ego and Archetype p 50
"If when the individual is thrown back on himself through the loss of a projected religious value, he is able to confront the ultimate questions of life that are posed for him, he may be able to use this opportunity for a decisive development in consciousness." Edinger: Ego and Archetype p 58
"Whenever man consciously encounters a divine agency which assists, commands or directs, we can understand it as an encounter of the ego with the Self." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p70
" 'The important thing is what (a man) talks about, not whether he agrees with it on not' C.G. Jung CW Vol 5 p99" Edinger, Ego and Archetype p76
"The knowledge that a psychological meaning exists is acquired only by experience" Edinger, Ego and Archetype p80
"Apparently the Self needs conscious realization and is obliged by the individuation urge to tempt and test the ego in order to bring about full ego-awareness of the Self's existence." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p80
"We all have an underlying resentment against fate and reality which is a residue of inflation....There are symptoms of inflation which will not grant the existence of a greater reality than one's personal desires." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p96
"...The individuation urge promotes a state in which the ego is related to the Self with out being identified with it...(then) there emerges a more or less continuous dialogue between the conscious ego and the unconscious and also between the outer and inner experiences." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p 94
"To be primitive in our relation to the outer world is to be superstitious; but to be primitive in relation to the inner world of the psyche is to be wise." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p 101