I like how Jungian thought brought awareness of the autonomy of the dream figures, they have their lives even when we aren’t dreaming about them. I find “parts work” very helpful, a term some give to what you’re describing. Different parts of ourselves have different and (at times conflicting) ideas and interests. And sometimes they are autonomous figures of the collective psyche, not parts of ourselves at all. Jungian psychology relativized the waking ego, the western day ego, into a living psychic ecology within which we are situated. I find that liberating.
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