individuation comes from the little people

• Jung once noted that individuation does not come from on high, from the royal ego managing affairs, but from “the little people,” the split-off energies which are the peasants of the inner kingdom (“A Review of the Complex Theory,” The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, CW 8, par. 209)
• the ego would like to make the universe of the soul monocratic and monotheistic, the psyche is in fact polytheistic and powerfully democratic, with many split-off energies … the enlarged sense of self requires a dialogue with these energies and an ego both open and humble. Most of us have only truly grown when our ego’s haughty power was brought down … doubt overthrows the petty monarch ego whose tyranny enslaves
• doubt is essential for democracy … (government) institutions such as legislatures, courts and social agencies are pressured by the anxious few to adhere to constrictive values and to contain the forces of diversity
• doubt protects mystery from stagnation

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1. doubt protects mystery from stagnation

   the doubt which keeps alive the dialectical values, and therefore protects a culture from reification and stagnation, also serves to enliven the