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I am reading Pathways to Bliss right now. Has a lot of great stuff from the lectures I love. Last night I re-read the passage on sex and power. Freud says sex is the primary drive. Adler says, no, its power and our need to overcome feelings of inferiority. Jung says that each person is driven by both, but typically develops one more than the other. So the primary drive becomes mature and developed while the other remains relatively primitive and we are less able to control it. I am clearly strong in my drive for power. As Campbell says, always asking myself – How am I doing? Am I making it? And on matter of sex I still can’t articulate or understand my desires. And blush so easily.

Interestingly Jung says that as our roles change in life – ie the typical mid-life crisis – we engage with the other side of our personality. This can be frightening or thrilling or both.