“The fusion of areas of consciousness which for us are more or less clearly defined leads, as it were, to a perpetual game of hide-and-seek with ourselves and to a confusion of ego positions. Emotional instability, ambivalent pleasure-pain reactions, the interchangeability of inside and outside, of individual and group – all these result in an insecurity for the ego which is intensified by the powerfully emotional and affective “vectors” of the unconscious.”
