Jungian concept of self under the aspect of the ego-self's dialectic: About the importance in the pathology of severe diseases

The Jungian concept of self is understood as the dialectic between ego and self, and as an expression of the soul's immanent contradiction as both sou l and spirit. Taking the biographical background into consideration, C.G. J ung is shown on one hand as certainly having lived inside a personality gro unded in a dialectical ego-self relationship and, on the other hand, having formulated his psychological theory by ignoring the dialectic. He seems to have remained unconscious with regard to the dialectic, and he evaded the issue ending up in reification. The same thing happens to the self. Based o n syzygy as the basic metaphor of the soul, the author assumes the Jungian self as a moment in the dialectical movement, as the moment of fulfilled sy zygy in actu. Finally the dissociation of ego and self, which is characteri stic of our time, and the possibility of suffering and getting through, on a spiritual level, is put forward.