The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1952 by C.G. Jung
by C.G. Jung; edited by Sonu Shamdasani
Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1996 128 pages
Hatred is the thing that divides, the force which discriminates. It is so when two people fall in love; they are at first almost identical. There is a great deal of participation mystique, so they need hatred in order to separate themselves. After a while the whole thing turns into a wild hatred; they get resistances against one another in order to force each other off--otherwise they remain in a common unconsciousness which they simply cannot stand. One sees that also in analysis . . . The old Greeks put phobus, fear, instead of hatred. They said that the first born thing was either Eros or phobus. . . There are optimists that say the real thing is love, and pessimists who say the real thing is phobus. Phobus separates more than hatred, because fear causes one to run away, to remove oneself from the place of danger.
(p. 5)
-- quote submitted by Maura S.
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