"If the ego serves the reconciling functions of peacemaker [rather then identifying with one side or the other] it is acting in the interests of totality." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p 137
"The ego easily identified in a primitive fashion with the suprapersonal energies of the archetypal psyche and evidenced its inflation by symptoms of anger, violence and lust...the ego must be emptied of such inflated identifications before it can perceive the transpersonal psyche as something separate from itself." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p 138
"Dismemberment can be understood psychologically as the transformative process which divides up an original unconscious content for purposes of conscious assimilation." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p140
" The inner opponent to our conscious standpoint must be accepted, respected and treated generously. The shadow must be accepted, only then can wholeness of personality be approached." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p142
"The unconscious mirrors to the ego the same attitude that the ego takes toward it...The judgmental attitude toward the unconscious is an inflation of the ego and will always boomerang against it." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p143
"...the deeper layers of the transpersonal psyche are reached through the undifferentiated, childlike aspects of the personality." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p144
" 'The least...hungry...thirsty;'...the needy side of ourselves...lonely and unaccepted...naked...exposed, and unprotected,..sick, the side of the psyche that is...pathological, neurotic...it is in prison-confined and punished...acceptance of the shadow and compassion for the inferior inner man equals acceptance of the Self." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p144
" 'Individuation...is a process of differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality' CG Jung" Edinger, Ego and Archetype p140
"The ego is an incarnation, an entity, which participates in the vicissitudes of time, space and causality. The Self; as the center of the archetypal psyche, is in another world beyond consciousness and its particularizing modes of experience. The ego is the center of subjective identity; the Self , the center of objective identity." Edinger, Ego and Archetype p166
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