“Now with respect to analysis, with the Freudian personal unconscious analysis you try to search back to find what the crisis was, what the historical or biographical moment was, and then come to know it and get released from it.

“That’s not the Jungian way at all. What the Jungian tries to find out is what are the energies that have not been allowed to play. Evoke them. You are a flower that is only half opened. Drop a little water on the unopened petals. Let them come. And so it’s a pitch forward instead of backward. Instead of hunting back, back, back, back to disengage back there and then come forward, you just flood forward and this other thing will get washed out.

“And that’s the way myth works. Myth is opening to you the total humanity of yourself and it evokes energies and brings them into play. Some of those energies have been repressed and are consequently frightening for you.”

–from Joseph Campbell: Mythos III

More wisdom from Campbell:

“Imperfection is life.”
–Joseph Campbell

“No one has ever performed a good deed.”
–Wolfram von Eschenbach in Parzival

“All deeds have good and evil results, motives and everything else.”
–Joseph Campbell