The Creative Relationship between the Conscious and the Unconscious: a Breath of Life for the Soul

At the times in history ruled by the spirit of rationalism, which captures all of the light, symbolic life remains in the shadows. This essay observes the living relationship between the conscious and the unconscious as a source and breath of the soul. Self-reflection is thought of as an act of courage: consenting to the descent into the depths of the being, crossing the darkness, greeting the symptom. The soul, transgressive and oriented towards the Self, strips away the sterile, conventional fidelities in order to call for a metamorphosis of the being. Between myth and diagnosis, the individuation process appears to be a work of transmutation where fear is the threshold or transition, and conflict becomes creation. The outlines of an ethic of alterity emerge in the fragile alliance between body and soul, opening new horizons for both the individual and the group.