Epilogue: "Slouching Towards Bethlehem": Our Analytic Self Emerges.

Let me close this issue by returning to where I began, with the slouching beast in Yeats's "The Second Coming", one of the "beings who inhabit Yeats's apocalyptic poems that await their 'hour,'" a beast that "foretells a monstrous birth" (Vendler, [10], p. 139, 170). How, I wonder, would such a monstrous birth and the nightmare and catastrophe Yeats's poem describes apply to our becoming our analyst self? Jung continues: The analyst would have to "clearly understand that psychic infections ... are in fact the predestined concomitants of ... [the work]" (Jung, [6], para. That's the most challenging question I find we must continue to ponder when we look at the association of Yeats's poem and its slouching beast with the emergence of our analyst self. [Extracted from the article]