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Cybele Brandow's avatar

Yes, I am thinking a lot about this too right now, as I enter my own threshold of Sacred Union. The external union reflects the internal, the internal the external. What does a healthy union process look like? I am brought to MLvF's Projection & Re-Collection. To recollect/withdraw the projections one has stockpiled on their partner ('both' parties) and assume responsibility for the behaviors in the other that one finds annoying, irritating, unacceptable, reprehensible, disappointing. Post-withdrawal, then shared responsibility, or co-responsibility, co-acknowledgment, Eye of the Thymus, becomes possible (intoxicatingly so! A true relational ekstasis). So many amazing threads here~

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Brian C. Short's avatar

This seems to me a subtle but deeply intriguing mechanism. I remember, when I was married a long time ago, I had a persistent vision of a person made of shadow clinging to my back. At the time, no matter what I did, I was i error, and was punished for it. I realized intuitively it seemed to be my wife's shadow that she'd put onto me. For reasons that might be obvious, the marriage didn't last very long. I wasn't as grounded in Jungian theory at the time, but I understood enough to literally see that.

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