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Marie-Louise von Franz

“Jung 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. 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 realize that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision. . . 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. In religious language you could say that the situation without issue is meant to force the man to rely on an act of God.”

Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition
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The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series) The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition by Marie-Louise von Franz
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