"In 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections', where Jung describes his encounter with the unconscious, in his original draft he wrote: “I wanted to achieve something in my science, and then I bumped into this stream of lava, and then it brought everything into order.”

In Aniela Jaffé’s transcription, this becomes “… I hit upon a stream of lava and the heat of its fires reshaped my life.”...

In the original, it is not Jung the rational scientist who takes the initiative; it is the lava itself, the mysterious unconscious, that works through Jung...

Jung was following the alchemical dictum: from darkness I give birth to light.

The key point here is that Jung realized that it is the unconscious itself, the darkness, that does its work through us."

- Gregory Shaw, The Cry of Merlin

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Source: https://themarginaliareview.com/the-cry-of-merlin-carl-jung-and-the-insanity-of-reason/