Great article by Amanda Butler:
"Sometimes it is through loving another, including their shadow aspects, that we learn to accept and even love those same shadow aspects in ourselves. “If one’s partner is ‘truly loved,’ then that human being becomes a ‘representative of the unconscious.’ Love is a mediator, circulating energy both outwardly and inwardly.”
This type of love, which breaks through “the illusory maya of unconscious projections,” could be considered “a process of mutual individuation.” If the tension of opposites can be held, a “third kind of relationship” can be formed, which Jung called a “Golden Thread.” He considered this type of relationship to be “the only lasting one, in which it is as though there were an invisible telegraph wire between two human beings.”
