![]() Keywords: Self, psychic structure, complementarity, St Augustine, C.G. The article diverts from Jung's view of alchemy regarding the method of approach to the unconscious. In medieval alchemy it corresponds to the hermaphrodite, and the philosopher's stone. The complementarian Self obtains as the goal of the spiritual path. The transformation of Self is an ongoing process in the unconscious. The article argues that the trinitarian spiritual ideal must continue to play a role, together with a this-worldly (quaternarian) ideal of spirit, following the principle of complementarity as defined by physicists. Psychologist Carl Jung, renounced the ideal of perfection and proposed an ideal of completeness. ![]() In the Christian era, the ideal of the spiritual individual who is morally perfect (Jesus Christ), through its very one-sidedness, created a reversal of its spirit into materialism. ![]() The Self, representing the wholeness of the psyche, has in different guises functioned as a role model for the individual, throughout history. ![]()
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