Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!
Carl JungThe wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Fรผhrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
Carl Jung