Jung writes in “Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”:

“…but to dissolve the projections, in order to restore their contents to the individual who has involuntarily lost them by projecting them outside himself.”

Jung’s advice is to relieve the mother of this appalling burden, this massive weight of meaning. A mother-complex is not banished by reducing her to human proportions. To relieve her of this burden, we must become psychological and be conscious of the world of archetypes that holds the primordial images of life. If these images remain conscious in some form, “the energy that belongs to them can flow freely into the man or woman. But when it is no longer possible to maintain contact with them, then the tremendous sum of energy stored up in these images, which are also the source of the fascination underlying the infantile parental complex, falls back into the unconscious.” This is how we give birth to a complex. The unconscious becomes charged with an irresistible force that is dangled enticingly before our desiring eyes. We take a bite.

–Charles Mccullagh

Archetype mother