One of Jung's most attacked, and yet IMO consistently profound, insights. Particularly in dealing with the parent projections in later relations, and that oft-quoted pearl "the greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of the parents" - the mother secretly dreaming of extroverting logos in the world of work and career and ploughing that transcendent telos into the children, or the father befuddled by the feminine principle in a culture which supported aborting his dip into the unconscious anima, and rendering it the job of the sensitive-self children. In my generation (if not my very own life) pacing around the smouldering ruins and dizzying pinnacles of 40 years of a not terribly peaceful gender tussle, Jung's hardy explication of contrasexual archetypes is a wonderful (almost sensuously archeological) gift from the core of the libidinal, archetypal and family-relation pathways in psyche. It's almost so simple prima facie to have been lost in the mire of the (ironically dominant) inclusive-sensitive self culture I have been passed through... and so simply captured in this gruff little diagram! Thanks, Brandy George.
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