The Container Is Crucial

Without rituals to make a firm demarcation between the sacred and profane, we tend to identify with archetypes. By identifying with an archtype, instead of remaining detached from it, they turn life into theatre. They become actors on a stagethus falling prey to demonic as well as angelic inflation. If a person is blindlo living out an archetype, he is not containing his own life. He is possessed, and his possession acts as a magnet on unconscious people in his environment. It can become a dangerous world where illusion and reality are fatally confused. Most people come into analysis because they are floundering. Life has lost its meaning. But some deep intuitive voice is whispering