2023-02-08 Wed 18:35 PM ![[moses_carl_jung_pondering_pixar_34e4c0bd-b8ee-40fa-a355-673387d1e644.png]] From [[Ref. Carl Jung 1961 - Memories, Dreams, Reflections]]: > a higher sense of responsibility…. [is the] very quality which keeps its possessor from accepting the decision of a collectivity [of parts].  and > Once this happens, the psyche of the individual acquires heightened importance. It is not only the seat of his well-known and socially defined ego; it is also the instrument for measuring what it is worth in and for itself. Nothing so promotes the growth of consciousness as this inner confrontation of opposites. Quite unsuspected facts turn up in the indictment, and the defense is obliged to discover arguments hitherto unknown. In the course of this, a considerable portion of the outer world reaches the inner, and by that very fact the outer world is impoverished or relieved. On the other hand, the inner world has gained that much weight by being raised to the rank of a tribunal for ethical decisions. However, the once unequivocal ego loses the prerogative of being merely the prosecutor; it must also learn the role of defendant. The ego becomes ambivalent and ambiguous, and is caught between hammer and anvil. _It becomes aware of a polarity superordinate to itself._