The foremost of his therapeutic principles is that conscious realization is an important agent for transforming the personality.
the Collected Works Of C.g. Jungby c. G. Jung
The subject of transformation is not the empirical man, however much he may identify with the old Adam, but Adam the Primordial Man, the archetype within us.
Though instincts or drives can be formulated in physiological and biological terms they cannot be pinned down in that way, for they are also psychic entities which manifest themselves in a world of fantasy peculiarly their own.
It is not an imitation of Christ but its exact opposite: an assimilation of the Christ-image to his own self, which is the true man. It is no longer an effort, an intentional straining after imitation, but rather an involuntary experience of the reality represented by the sacred legend.
Like all numinous contents, they have a tendency to self-amplification, that is to say they form the nuclei for an aggregation of synonyms.
The psychic is a phenomenal world in itself, which can be reduced neither to the brain nor to metaphysics.
