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Réparation18
Aborder les problèmes ; réparer ce qui a été négligé. Assumer la responsabilité de restaurer et d'améliorer.
↓ Line 2
Aborder les problèmes nécessite une approche douce ; une force excessive peut être contre-productive.
↓ Line 4
Ignorer les erreurs passées conduit à l'embarras et à d'autres problèmes.
↓ Line 6
Viser des idéaux plus élevés plutôt que de chercher l'approbation des figures d'autorité.
↓ Petites puissances62
Concentrez-vous sur les détails. Adoptez l'humilité et les petits pas pour réussir. Évitez de viser trop haut ou d'en faire trop pour prévenir l'échec.
18 Réparation
Other titles: Work On What Has Been Spoiled, The Symbol of Destruction, Decay, Arresting of Decay, Work after Spoiling, Fixing, Rectifying, Corrupting, Branch, Degeneration, Misdeeds "Can refer to heredity and psychological traits.” -- D. F. Hook
Judgment
Legge: Successful progress is indicated for those who properly repair what has been spoiled. It is advantageous to cross the great stream. One should consider carefully the events three days before the turning point and the tasks remaining for three days afterward.
Wilhelm/Baynes:Work On What Has Been Spoiled has supreme success. It furthers one to cross the great water. Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days.
Blofeld:Decay augurs sublime success and the advantage of crossing the great river (or sea). [I.e. of going on a journey or of going forward with one's plans.] What has happened once will surely happen again (literally, "three days before the commencement; three days after the commencement"). [It would have been hard to make sense of these words, were it not that the Confucian Commentary on the Text clearly explains them; hence the liberty I have taken with the Text.]
Liu: Work after spoiling. Great success. It is of benefit to cross the great water. Before starting, three days. After starting, three days. [This hexagram implies that, although conditions are bad now, improvement can be expected.]
Ritsema/Karcher: Corrupting, Spring Growing. Harvesting: wading the Great River. Before seedburst three days, after seedburst three days. [This hexagram describes your situation in terms of disorder, perversion and putrefaction. It emphasizes that letting things rot away so they become obsolete is the adequate way to handle it...]
Shaughnessy: Branch: Prime auspiciousness; receipt. Beneficial to ford the great river; preceding jia by three days, following jia by three days.
Cleary (1): Correcting degeneration is greatly developmental. It is beneficial to cross great rivers. Three days before the start, three days after the start. [The way to correct degeneracy is not in empty tranquility without action; it is necessary to work in the midst of great danger and difficulty, to act in the dragon’s pool and the tiger’s lair. Only then can one restore one’s original being, cultivating it into something indestructible.]
Cleary (2): From degeneration comes great development, etc.
Wu: Misdeeds is great and pervasive. It will be advantageous to cross the big river. It would be advisable to begin an undertaking three days before Jia and examine the ongoing progress three days thereafter.
The Image
Legge: The image of wind below the mountain forms Repair. The superior man, in accordance with this, stimulates the virtue of the people.
Wilhelm/Baynes: The wind blows low on the mountain: the image of Decay. Thus the superior man stirs up the people and strengthens their spirit.
Blofeld: This hexagram symbolizes wind blowing at the foot of a mountain. The Superior Man, by stimulating people's hearts, nourishes their virtue.
Liu: Wind blowing around the foot of the mountain symbolizes Work after Spoiling. The superior man encourages people to cultivate virtue.
Ritsema/Karcher: Below mountain possessing wind. Corrupting. A chun tzu uses rousing the commoners to nurture actualizing-tao. [Actualize-tao: ...ability to follow the course traced by the ongoing process of the cosmos... Linked with acquire, TE: acquiring that which makes a being become what it is meant to be.]
Cleary (1): There is wind in the mountains; degeneration. Thus superior people rouse the people and nurture virtue.
Cleary (2): … Leaders thus arouse the people to nurture virtue.
Wu: There is wind at the foot of the mountain; this is Misdeeds. Thus the jun zi arouses the people and nurtures his own virtue.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: The dynamic trigram is above, and the magnetic trigram is below. Pliancy is below, and Stopping above: these suggest troubled conditions verging on ruin. But Repair brings order to all under heaven, and he who advances will encounter the business to be done. The end of confusion is the beginning of order; such is the procedure of heaven.
Legge: Repair means the performance of painful but necessary duties. It shows a situation in which things are going to ruin, as if through poison or venomous worms. In order to justify the auspice of progress and success, the duty of the figure is to rectify this and restore conditions to health. This will require a major effort, such as crossing the great stream, and the careful differentiation of the causes of the problem, as well as the measures taken to fix it. The attribute of the lower trigram is Pliancy, and the upper represents Stoppage or Arrest. Hence, the feeble pliancy of decadence is stopped cold by the immovable mountain. The three days before and after the turning point symbolize the careful attention and differentiation necessary for any rectification to succeed.
On the Image, Ch'eng-tzu says: "When the wind encounters the mountain, it is driven back, and the things about are all scattered in disorder; such is the emblem of the state denoted by Repair." The nourishing of virtue appears especially in line six -- all the other lines belong to the helping of the people.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Judgment:Repair means to set your house in order. Analyze your choices before the renovation and evaluate their consequences afterward.
The Superior Man orders his thoughts and feelings, reforms old attitudes, and strengthens his will. (Psychologically, to "stimulate the virtue of the people" (Legge) is to rectify the components of a complex.)
To imagine any truly objective state of perception we must include all that exists: the entire cosmos. Each differentiation of this, from atom to galaxy, is one slice out of an infinite whole. As a portion of the entirety, we are always linked with our ancestors in an infinite web of relationships which includes our family history, our racial-cultural-historical heritage and Homo sapiens as a species. Though seldom aware of them, it is useful to remember these links. Emanating from an unfathomable complexity, their karmically-charged morphogenetic fields are constantly shaping our lives. It follows that, although we perceive ourselves as separate from our ancestors, the separation is a subjective experience which is true only in a temporally limited sense.
Every line of Repair, except two and six, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his father. This reminds us of the biblical curse:
For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me. Exodus 20: 5
The father archetype has a wide range of meanings: this extends from the Primal Spirit ("God the Father"), to a prior cause or intent in the psyche which has engendered a present condition. Psychologically interpreted, it is this latter reading which usually applies. If a "father" symbolizes the cause, then a "son" is the effect. If the effect is imperfect, then to rectify it is also to rectify the original intent.
To a large extent our lives consist of well-intentioned but misguided choices which create less than perfect consequences. To modify our attitude or behavior so that it corrects errors in our original intent is to "deal with the troubles caused by the father."
For example: In a misconceived expression of affection, a parent allows his child unrestricted access to candy. As a consequence of this choice, the kid's teeth become rotten, and the only logical way to correct the original error is to now curtail his intake of sugar. The fact that this new choice will create stress in the relationship between parent and child is just a consequence of the original choice and has no bearing at all on what is correct in the situation.
In some situations this hexagram may be interpreted as a response to a karmic chain of cause and effect:
To harmonize with the Wisdom Teachings, the scripture should read that the karma of the "father" is visited upon the "child" unto the fourth incarnation, not generation. The mistakes you made in the last four incarnations may be visited upon you in the form of karma flowing out of the heart seed atom in the present incarnation. Thus what you "fathered," or created, in your last incarnation may be the source ("parent") of your karma today. You are a child of that parent today. You have inherited from that parent -- the you of the past, not your physical parents -- all of your characteristics, weaknesses and strengths. Earlyne Chaney -- The Mystery of Death and Dying
The interpretation of any oracle response can only be as profound as our minds are prepared to accept. As moderns we find it difficult to empathize with "ancestor worship," yet properly understood, it can provide useful insights into the Work. In the unconscious realm all time is immediate, not sequential, and the Objective Psyche consists of a non- temporal web of forces shading from personal to universal. This means that if we have a complex engendered in us by our father, for example, we can reasonably assume that he was passing on what he received from his own parents. In this way, the unresolved complexes of the ancestors shape our own personalities: they live in and through us right now, even if they had their birth in forefathers long forgotten. This is a kind of near-immortality: individuals may die, but beliefs, attitudes, complexes live as long as they have receptive vessels to inhabit. (This is probably the engine of karma.) To the extent that an ancestral chain of causality still motivates our choices, we are totally responsible for "setting right what has been spoiled by the father."
SUGGESTIONS FOR MEDITATION
Most people have some level of unfinished business with their parents: psychologists would have little to do if this weren't true. It can be a healing ritual to set up an altar to a deceased parent and meditate there on the stresses that still remain between you. To approach the situation without judgment, to realize (non-logically) that forces pre-existing you provoked the condition as much as your parent did, will elicit much insight. Be especially aware of the presence of the past and the illusion of linear time. (Is it possible somehow to be your own great-grandfather?) Ancestor “worship” of this sort can be profoundly therapeutic.
Line 2
Legge: The second line, dynamic, shows a son dealing with the troubles caused by his mother. He should not carry his firm correctness to the utmost.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Setting right what has been spoiled by the mother. One must not be too persevering.
Blofeld: Assuming responsibility for the mistakes of our mothers cannot be too serious.
Liu: In correcting the mistakes of the mother, one must not be too persistent.
Ritsema/Karcher: Managing the mother's Corrupting. Not permitting Trial.
Shaughnessy: The stem mother's branch; one may not determine.
Cleary (1): Correcting the degeneracy of the mother, it is improper to be righteous.
Wu: He attends to the affairs of his mother. He should not be insistent.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: In dealing with the troubles caused by his mother he holds to the course of the due mean. Wilhelm/Baynes: He finds the middle way. Blofeld: At best a middle course is advisable. Ritsema/Karcher: Acquiring centering tao indeed. Cleary (2): attaining balance. Wu: He proceeds with moderation.
Legge: The fifth line ruler is magnetic, while line two is dynamic. Thus the symbolism takes the form of a son dealing with the prevailing decay induced by his mother. But a son must be very gentle in all his dealings with his mother, and especially so when constrained by a sense of duty to oppose her course.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man is gentle in dealing with his mother, even when duty bound to oppose her. When restoring what has been spoiled by weakness, gradualness is required.
Wing: You have become aware of past mistakes that must be rectified. Here you must proceed with great sensitivity, since the changes in your life could hurt those dear to you.
Editor: In psychological symbolism, a female represents emotional or feeling components within the psyche. A "mother" then, would be the source of an emotional attitude which, in the context of this hexagram, needs to be modified or changed. In correcting outmoded or inappropriate feelings one must proceed with care because emotional/instinctual forces cannot be altered as quickly as we can change our minds. (It is a commonplace in psychology that mental insights mean nothing if the emotions involved refuse to conform.) Often the line can refer to the proper way of responding to another's sensitive mood or attitude.
As in childhood development, which recapitulates human historical development in consciousness, the psychic detachment from the mother towards the father is intimately bound up with the growth of individuality. Consciousness strives to become separate from the maternal involvement, and aspires toward the outside world represented by the father. Gareth Knight -- A History of White Magic
A. Rectify an emotional response. Control your feelings, but don't crush them.
B. Be sensitive in the way you handle an emotional situation.
Line 4
Legge: The fourth line, magnetic, shows a son viewing indulgently the troubles caused by his father. If he goes forward, he will find cause to regret it.
Wilhelm/Baynes: Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation.
Blofeld: Tolerating the mistakes of our fathers would occasion us regret in the course of time.
Liu: Continuing to tolerate the mistakes of the father brings humiliation.
Ritsema/Karcher: Enriching the father's Corrupting. Going: visualizing abashment.
Shaughnessy: The bathed father's branch; going to see is distressful.
Cleary (1): Forgiving the degeneration of the father; if one goes on, there will be shame.
Cleary (2): Indulging the degeneration of the father, if you go on you will experience shame.
Wu: He shows compassion in the affairs of his father. If he attends to them, he will make error.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: If he advances he will not succeed. Wilhelm/Baynes: He goes, but as yet finds nothing. Blofeld: In that case, we should fail to rectify them. Ritsema/Karcher: Going: not-yet acquiring indeed. Cleary (2): If you go on you will not attain anything. Wu: He will have nothing to gain by attending to them.
Legge: Line four is magnetic in a magnetic place, which intensifies passivity. Hence the caution about going forward.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: Indulgence of decay leads to regret.
Wing: The situation has been less than harmonious for quite some time, yet this condition of discord has been tolerated. Under these circumstances things will continue to degenerate.
Editor: Line four doesn't lend itself to the usual gender symbolism. The image is one of passive and permissive tolerance of error. To allow things to continue under these conditions will ensure that they get worse. The line can sometimes refer to a state of complacent ignorance of the true situation. If your assumptions are incorrect in the first place, then your query is by definition inappropriate: re-think the question to discover the error.
Psychic inertia is also evident in our resistance to any form of change in conditioned patterns, no matter how promising or favorable it may be. Any psychoanalyst knows from dealing with "resistance" that every basic psychological change entails a deathlike experience for the ego. New possibilities produce so much anxiety that the most destructive past adaptations seem safer and inspire more confidence. E. C. Whitmont -- The Symbolic Quest
A. Passive indulgence in an old weakness leads to failure.
B. You think things are OK, but they're not: rectify a past error.
C. "A stitch in time saves nine."
Line 6
Legge: The sixth line, dynamic, shows us one who does not serve either king or feudal lord, but in a lofty spirit prefers to attend to his own affairs.
Wilhelm/Baynes: He does not serve kings and princes, sets himself higher goals.
Blofeld: He does not serve the King or the nobles -- what he does is even loftier than that. [In other words, if we directly serve the will of heaven; by doing so we act as sages who may safely do whatever they feel is worth doing.]
Liu: By not serving kings and princes, one gains higher recognition.
Ritsema/Karcher: Not affairs, kingly feudatories. Honoring highness: one's affair.
Shaughnessy: Not serving king or lord, but highly elevating his virtue; inauspicious.
Cleary (1): Not serving kings and lords, one makes one’s concerns loftier.
Wu: He does not engage himself in the affairs of kings or princes. He keeps a lofty lifestyle of his own.
COMMENTARY
Confucius/Legge: But his aim may be a model to others. Wilhelm/Baynes: Such an attitude may be taken as a model. Blofeld: This indicates that our own will can be our law. [provided we are acting from the highest motives.] Ritsema/Karcher: Purpose permitted by-consequence indeed.
Cleary (2): One’s will can serve as a model. Wu: His aspiration will be admired.
Legge: Line six is dynamic, with no proper correlate below. Hence it suggests the idea of one outside the sphere of action who takes no part in public affairs, but cultivates himself instead.
NOTES AND PARAPHRASES
Siu: The man does not serve his lord, but lets the world go by and cultivates his own character in solitude. In so doing, however, he creates something valuable for the future of mankind.
Wing: It is possible for you to transcend the entire situation. You do not have to deal with the mundane details of specific social problems. Instead, you may concern yourself with universal goals and personal or spiritual development. Caution: Viewing the world with a cynical or condescending eye, however, will distort your growth, so watch your attitudes carefully.
Editor: One of the most important precepts of the Work is a clear recognition that you can only measure your position and progress against an inner standard. The expectations and apparent achievements of others count for absolutely nothing. You aren't running a race with the world, but striving to beat your own record. One who has taken responsibility for the Work must be prepared to go where its dictates demand, despite what is considered "normal" or "proper" according to contemporary standards. Ritsema/ Karcher's translation of the Confucian commentary ("Purpose permitted by-consequence indeed"), means that one's determination to go it alone is mandated by a deep inner principle. That such an idea occurs in the hexagram of Repair suggests bolstering one's resolve to accept this lonely burden. Blofeld's version of the Confucian commentary ("This indicates that our own will can be our law") is too easily perverted, even with his cautionary note.
Indeed the Gnostics knew something, and it was this: that human life does not fulfill its promise within the structure and establishments of society, for all of these are at best but shadowy projections of another and more fundamental reality. No one comes to his true selfhood by being what society wants him to be nor by doing what it wants him to do. Family, society, church, trade and profession, political and patriotic allegiances, as well as moral and ethical rules and commandments are, in reality, not in the least conducive to the true spiritual welfare of the human soul. On the contrary, they are more often than not the very shackles which keep us from our true spiritual destiny. S. A. Hoeller -- The Gnostic Jung
A. Your duty is to serve a transcendent ideal.
B. "Mind your own business."
62 Petites puissances
Autres titres : Prépondérance du Petit, Le Symbole de l'Excès dans les Petites Choses, Les Petits s'en Sortent, Léger Excès, Petit Dépassement, Petit Surpassement, Excès du Petit, Petits Gains, Conscience, Petitesse en Excès, Dépassement de la Moyenne, Prolifération des Détails, "Comme un oiseau, ne volez pas trop haut ni n'essayez trop, car cela mènera au désastre." -- D.F. Hook
Jugement
Legge :Petites Puissances indique qu'il y aura progrès et réussite dans les petites affaires, mais pas dans les grandes. Il sera avantageux d'être ferme et correct. C'est comme le chant d'un oiseau en vol : il vaut mieux descendre que monter. De cette manière, il y aura bonne fortune.
Wilhelm/Baynes :Prépondérance du Petit. Succès. La persévérance est bénéfique. Les petites choses peuvent être faites ; les grandes choses ne devraient pas être faites. L'oiseau volant apporte le message : il n'est pas bon de s'efforcer vers le haut, il est bon de rester en bas. Grande bonne fortune.
Blofeld :Les Petits s'en Sortent -- succès ! La persistance dans une voie juste apporte récompense. Les petites choses peuvent être accomplies maintenant, mais pas les grandes. Quand les oiseaux volent haut, leur chant est désaccordé. Les humbles, mais pas les puissants, sont maintenant favorisés par une grande bonne fortune. [Viser haut maintenant serait se mettre en désaccord avec les temps.]
Liu :Léger Excès. Succès. Continuer est bénéfique. Entreprendre de petites choses, pas de grandes choses. Le chant de l'oiseau volant. Il n'est pas bon de monter ; il est bon de rester en bas. Grande bonne fortune. [Léger Excès signifie le léger excès ou la petite erreur qui peut empêcher la réalisation de grandes choses.]
Affaires. Ne pas permettre Grandes Affaires. Oiseau volant : abandon du son. Au-dessus pas approprié, en dessous approprié. Le grand significatif. [Cet hexagramme décrit votre situation en termes d'une variété écrasante de rencontres et de détails. Il souligne qu'une préoccupation excessive à s'adapter à ces événements intérieurs et extérieurs est la manière adéquate de le gérer...]
Shaughnessy : Petit Surpassement : Réception ; bénéfique de déterminer ; possible pour petit service, mais pas possible pour grand service. Le son laissé par l'oiseau volant n'est pas approprié pour l'ascension mais est approprié pour la descente ; grandement de bon augure.
Cleary (1) :Prédominance du petit est développementale, bénéfique si correct. Il convient pour une petite affaire mais pas pour une grande. L'appel laissé par un oiseau volant ne devrait pas monter mais descendre. C'est très de bon augure.
Cleary (2) :Petit excès se passe bien. Il est bénéfique d'être correct. C'est bien pour les petites affaires, pas pour les grandes. Un oiseau volant laisse son cri ; il ne devrait pas monter mais descendre – alors il y aura une grande bonne fortune.
Wu : Excès du Petit indique la pénétration et l'avantage d'être persévérant. On peut réussir dans les petites affaires, mais pas dans les grandes. Comme le son persistant d'un oiseau volant, il n'est pas approprié de monter, mais approprié de descendre. Grande fortune.
L'Image
Legge : L'image du tonnerre au-dessus d'une colline forme Petites Puissances. L'homme supérieur, en accord avec cela, dans sa conduite excède en humilité, dans le deuil excède en chagrin, et dans ses dépenses excède en économie.
Wilhelm/Baynes : Tonnerre sur la montagne : l'image de Prépondérance du Petit. Ainsi dans sa conduite l'homme supérieur donne la prépondérance à la révérence. Dans le deuil, il donne la prépondérance au chagrin. Dans ses dépenses, il donne la prépondérance à l'économie. [L'homme supérieur tire un impératif de cette image : il doit toujours fixer ses yeux plus étroitement et plus directement sur le devoir que l'homme ordinaire, même si cela peut rendre son comportement semble mesquin aux yeux du monde extérieur. Il est exceptionnellement consciencieux dans ses actions.]
Blofeld : Cet hexagramme symbolise le tonnerre sur les montagnes. L'Homme Supérieur agit maintenant avec trop de révérence, éprouve trop de chagrin du deuil et est trop économe dans la satisfaction de ses besoins.
Liu : Tonnerre sur la montagne symbolise Léger Excès. La conduite de l'homme supérieur est excessivement humble ; Dans le deuil, il se lamente excessivement, et il est avare dans ses dépenses.
Ritsema/Karcher : Au-dessus de la montagne possédant le tonnerre. Petit Dépassement. Un chun tzu utilise le mouvement Dépassement pour atteindre la courtoisie. Un chun tzu utilise la perte Dépassement pour atteindre le deuil. Un chun tzu utilise l'utilisation de Dépassement pour atteindre la parcimonie.
Cleary (1) : Il y a du tonnerre sur une montagne, excessivement petit. Ainsi les gens supérieurs sont excessivement déférents dans leur conduite, excessivement tristes dans le deuil, excessivement frugaux dans la consommation.
Cleary (2) : Tonnerre sur une montagne – petit excès. Les gens raffinés sont excessivement déférents dans leur conduite, excessivement tristes dans le deuil, et excessivement abstinents dans la consommation.
Wu : Le tonnerre roule sur la montagne ; c'est Excès du Petit. Ainsi le jun zi se conduit avec un peu d'excès de respect envers les autres, un peu d'excès de chagrin lors du deuil, et un peu d'excès de frugalité dans les dépenses.
COMMENTAIRE
Confucius/Legge : Dans Petites Puissances nous voyons les lignes magnétiques dépasser les autres, et donner l'indication de progrès et de réussite. Pour être avantageux, de tels excès doivent être associés à une fermeté correcte, et doivent toujours être en harmonie avec les exigences du temps. Les lignes magnétiques sont dans les endroits centraux, et c'est pourquoi il est dit que de petits excès peuvent être faits dans de petites affaires avec un bon effet. Des lignes dynamiques, l'une n'est pas à sa place correcte, et l'autre n'est pas centrale ; ainsi il est dit que de petits excès ne devraient pas être faits dans de grandes affaires. Dans l'hexagramme, nous avons le symbole de l'oiseau volant, dont le chant nous rappelle qu'il vaut mieux descendre que monter. Monter est contraire à ce qui est raisonnable dans le cas, tandis que descendre est naturel et juste.
Legge : Le sens de cet hexagramme dans lequel un excès de lignes yin prévaut, peut être saisi en contrastant son image avec celle de l'hexagramme numéro vingt-huit, Masse Critique, dans lequel un excès de lignes yang prévaut. Ici, l'idée est la prévalence de petites ou inférieures puissances, et la leçon à apprendre est comment distinguer les essentiels des non-essentiels. Est-il jamais bon de dévier du cours établi de la procédure ? La réponse est que c'est permis seulement dans les petites affaires, mais jamais dans les affaires d'importance. Parfois, la forme peut être dispensée, mais jamais la substance, et la chose doit toujours être faite de manière responsable et avec une humilité appropriée. Le symbole de l'oiseau est pour enseigner l'humilité -- il est préférable pour lui de descendre, en restant près de là où il peut se percher et se reposer, que de monter dans les régions sans abri de l'air supérieur.
NOTES ET PARAPHRASES
Jugement : Ancrez vos envolées de fantaisie.
L'Homme Supérieur se plie en quatre pour être correct.
Petites Puissances montre la figure précédente de Vérité Intérieure retournée à l'envers. Ici, les lignes magnétiques sont toutes à l'extérieur -- non contenues et non contrôlées. L'hexagramme reflète souvent une situation dans laquelle les "archétypes" : les passions, appétits, émotions, pulsions et instincts ont quitté leurs places appropriées dans la psyché et volent librement comme des oiseaux échappés du zoo. La plupart des lignes décrivent soit le danger d'une telle situation, soit avertissent sur la manière de la contrôler.
Dans cet état d'identité gonflé et compulsif, nous et la pulsion sommes à notre plus nuisible ; la pulsion se déploiera et nous agirons son côté extrême, inapproprié et destructeur. Dans le processus, nous obtenons le pire, ainsi que les autres personnes impliquées. La mauvaise chose se produit généralement au mauvais moment et au mauvais endroit. Une capacité à se diriger vers la différenciation et à transformer la pulsion ne surgira pas tant que l'état d'identité n'aura pas été dissous. Cela nécessite une confrontation de la pulsion comme un Toi, comme quelque chose qui n'est pas Moi, comme quelque chose de séparé de nous-mêmes. Ce n'est qu'à ce moment-là que le dialogue intérieur peut commencer. Jusque-là, la pulsion reste inconsciente, primitive et destructrice. Ce n'est qu'après que l'identité a été dissoute en apprenant à expérimenter la pulsion comme une entité autonome séparée de l'ego, que nous avons une chance de choisir un bon moment et un bon endroit et de développer le potentiel positif de la pulsion. E.C. Whitmont --La Quête Symbolique
Fait intéressant, la seule ligne qui semble être correctement "hors de sa cage" est la deuxième -- suggérant une situation dans laquelle une sagesse intérieure intuitive prend la préséance appropriée sur la fermeté habituelle de la "raison."