Carl Jung: Only through objective cognition is the real coniunctio possible.
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I experienced this objectivity once again later on. That was after the death of my wife. I saw her in a dream which was like a vision.
She stood at some distance from me, looking at me squarely. She was in her prime, perhaps about thirty, and wearing the dress which had been made for her many years before by my cousin the medium.
It was perhaps the most beautiful thing she had ever worn.
Her expression was neither joyful nor sad, but, rather, objectively wise and understanding, without the slightest emotional reaction, as though she were beyond the mist of affects.
I knew that it was not she, but a portrait she had made or commissioned for me.
It contained the beginning of our relationship, the events of fifty-three years of marriage, and the end of her life also. Face to face with such wholeness one remains speechless, for it can scarcely be comprehended.
The objectivity which I experienced in this dream and in the visions is part of a completed individuation. It signifies detachment from valuations and from what we call emotional ties.
In general, emotional ties are very important to human beings. But they still contain projections, and it is essential to withdraw these projections In order to attain to oneself and to objectivity.
Emotional relationships are relationships of desire, tainted by coercion and constraint; something is expected from the other person, and that makes him and ourselves unfree. Objective cognition lies hidden behind the attraction of the emotional relationship; it seems to be the central secret.
Only through objective cognition is the real coniunctio possible. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections
