ABSTRACT
Despite the utter vastness and subtlety of the opus mysticum, the application of the theory of the effect of the combination of the two parental complexes to Mel affords valuable insights. There were two stages to Mel’s analysis: before and after he became receptive to a ME. In the first stage, he experienced continued regression that provided the inward movement of libido that is a precondition for the emergence of the Pleromic archetypes, which occurred in the second stage. In that latter stage, he processed the ME, understood that it had arisen from within his unconscious and realised that it was the demonstration of a non-ego force as the central, guiding principle.
