ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a pair of interlocking essays, chosen as a way to approach the relationship between Freud and Jung more at an angle than head on. Despite the fact that Freud sprinkles the word "fate" liberally throughout at least 227 letters, essays, and books, from as early as 1872 to his latest posthumously published works, the concept itself has no explicit place within his theory. Jung, on the other hand, takes up the idea of fate explicitly and directly. The paradoxical ways in which brokenness itself cracks open to beauty and presence have been less explicitly explored and named. The Japanese practice of kintsugi, literally meaning "golden joinery" is the art of mending broken pottery with lacquer resin dusted or mixed with powered gold. The "primitive terror of losing oneself" arises in the face of surrender, a terror that becomes easily conflated—perhaps symbolically equated—with the letting go which accompanies the most significant movements towards presence and wholeness.
