@hidden @J @une @snacks I don't know it's possible for me to ever say you're right or wrong, Jung's way too complicated. I just think I see different things from you. When you get deep into Jung, at least for me, that "flexible ego" thing is exactly how I started seeing it.

Like, you can have a certain trait, like a short temper for example, but you realize that it's just an aspect of your internal mental world that you can identify with or regard as just a feature of your "landscape." It's something shared by many many other people, and in that way it's not really "you", but you can apply the wisdom of people who have had to deal with the same kind of thing before to your own problems.

He says a lot of things out of nowhere, like, "when you realize who you really are, all of this will be obvious." And these phrases stick out, and they're confusing. I think with passages like that he's hinting at something very deep with plausible deniability that he meant it as anything other than, in this example, "knowing who you really are" is just knowing your own internal landscape, and not... something else. I don't know, honestly, I just have a feeling there's a lot of other stuff there you can't really see unless you're ready for it.