You Are Not the Master of Your Own House

The first lines of Abrahamic story are a call to adventure. Jung understood in the psychoanalysts understand is one of the most terrifying elements of psychoanalytic thinking, which is that you are not the master of your own house. There are all sorts of things that occur within you that seem to be beyond your capacity to control them. And so they destroy authority and competence. That's a terrible thing because we need authority and competence for our survival.