THE CONIUNCTIO
(English) “The Coniunctio can...take...gruesome forms…” (Jung) The search for wholeness, which will alleviate human suffering, calls for a conscious integration and balancing of many opposites (i.e consciousness/unconscious; love/hatred; joy/sorrow, masculine/feminine, etc) in life. Jung mentioned that bringing those opposites together creates a coniunctio. Unfortunately, when the ego unconsciously associates and identifies with certain psychological states (i.e., the ego of
