" But one of the facts we are always coming up against in our psychic experience is that growth takes place by fits and starts. There are retentions and blockages of libido which have to be breached by a new phase of development. Always the “old system” hangs on until the opposing forces are strong enough to overcome it. Here, too, “war is the father of all things. "

― Erich Neumann , The Origins and History of Consciousness