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“So (obsessive-compulsive behavior) is really an unmediated, archetypal affect that is persecutory and has to be propitiated in these highly ritualized ways… rage is what is often underneath that which was not allowed, and so it can get channelled into a kind of righteousness or over-rationalization or a rigid kind of morality. Because that’s okay, there’s a structure for that. Whereas, underneath there’s this unmediated, disallowed affect. So maybe both of those are underlying dynamics of an inability to relate to a positive and benevolent archetypal god image. And the forbidden affect of aggression, rage, and the forced compliance, underneath which something else is seething.”

“There’s a real split between good and bad, nice and nasty, cooperation/compliance versus rebellion or defiance, neat/messy. So there’s such an inability to hold ambiguity and having opposing feelings.”

— Deborah Stewart on This Jungian Life