Another thing is that the idea of a soulmate or other half is an archetypal idea. So we easily project it on duality, and suddenly duality has become the perfect relationship literally made in heaven (the way we think and fantasize about it). You could say that we project duality-the-archetype onto duality-the-real-thing. One should try to keep a sober mind.
The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.
(Jung on Si)
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