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By Maria von Franz in Robert Johnson's Owning Your Shadow:
"Jung has said that to be in a situation where there is no way out, or to be in a conflict where there is no solution, is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution.: the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put the ego-consciousness up against the wall, so that the man has to realize that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision. Naturally, if a man says, "Oh well, I shall just let everything go and make no decision, but just protract and wriggle out of it," the whole thing is equally wrong,f or then naturally nothing happens. But if he is ethical enough to suffer to the core of his personality, the generally... the Self manifests." (p. 94)
"Jung has said that to be in a situation where there is no way out, or to be in a conflict where there is no solution, is the classical beginning of the process of individuation. It is meant to be a situation without solution.: the unconscious wants the hopeless conflict in order to put the ego-consciousness up against the wall, so that the man has to realize that whatever he does is wrong, whichever way he decides will be wrong. This is meant to knock out the superiority of the ego, which always acts from the illusion that it has the responsibility of decision. Naturally, if a man says, "Oh well, I shall just let everything go and make no decision, but just protract and wriggle out of it," the whole thing is equally wrong,f or then naturally nothing happens. But if he is ethical enough to suffer to the core of his personality, the generally... the Self manifests." (p. 94)
