Complementarity as a Therapeutic Goal
Therapeutic cooperation can help the client find creative solutions to the conflict that has impelled her/ him to seek therapy. This solution already exists in the unconscious psyche of the client. The goal is to balance the pole on which there is too heavy an emphasis and which does not want to be ignored with the other pole, which does not want to be (or cannot be) seen, as an imbalance caused by one-sidedness makes the psyche freeze, which causes pain and dysfunctionality to fight for their very raison d'être.
In Analytical Psychology, contradiction, i.e. conflict, is seen as both an opportunity and a task that allows one to get to know the other side of one's own truth. "Wholeness also means being contradictory."