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ALT We must recognise that just as there is a pool of sadness in everyone, so there is a mountain of anger. Anger is a legitimate reaction of the soul to its wounding. We may keep it unconscious precisely because its expression today reactivates the peril its expression once risked. We may turn it upon ourselves by somatising, depressing or damaging ourselves through our contaminated decisions. Or we may transfer this anger to others, thereby wounding those who are the silent surrogates for those we could not confront in the past. Anger, then, is a reflexive response to the constriction of the soul. As such, it is not only part of the defence system of the psyche, it is a vital intimation which, when tracked, may lead to the soul's healing. When transformed by consciousness, anger becomes vital energy which is available not only for healing but also for furthering the desires of the soul. By Jungian, James Hollis from his book, 'Swamplands of the Soul'.
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ALT The feminine factor had a determining influence on Jung's personality and thought. The intellect, the purely masculine spirit of the world of professional scholarship, was alien to him, because this world knows nothing of the process of fertilization through the unconscious. But the integration of the feminine into the world of masculine Logos to which our culture has been committed up to the present was not simply a personal matter with Jung. He was convinced that in general it is required of everyone these days.~Marie-Louise von Franz, CG Jung: His Myth in our Time
ALT When a woman is identified exclusively with the role of mother, then her individual personality—symbolically, the body—is diminished and one sees only the role. In addition, when the mother role dominates, other people and even objects become children to be cared for. The individuality of the woman and that of the other person suffer because of the limitation of vision within the role: everyone and everything that is not mother becomes child. By Donald Lee Williams from his book, 'Border Crossings: Carlos Castaneda's Path of Knowledge'.