ABSTRACT
Dr. Jung
Mrs. Crowley asks a question concerning the autonomous figures we spoke of last time. She would like to know how to distinguish such autonomous figures from instincts or very strong impulses. I am afraid I could not distinguish between them. Instincts that would appear in our psychology are chiefly personified as autonomous figures, inasmuch, of course, as the instincts are not smoothly integrated in the whole of the personality. As soon as one is at variance with them, they have a decided tendency to become objectified in some way, and then they oppose us. It is as if it were another person with a will that contrasts with one’s own.
