If there is one primary lesson we have learned during seventy years of analysis, it is that we discover a sense of soul in the sufferings of psychopathology.
When I am laid low by the misery of depressions, symptoms, and cravings, I meet the irrefutable evidence of the independence of psychic forces. Something lives in me that is not of my own doing. This demon that speaks in dreams and passions and pains will not let go, and I am forced to give recognition to its value for deepening me beyond my usual notion of myself as ego and for bringing to my mind a sense of soul and of death.
So to take sickness into life means to take soul with one wherever one goes and to react to life in terms of this soul. As sickness is contagious, so can my concern for soul be infectious, taking soul into the houses of others, taking psyche into life. Then life, too—and not only analysis—becomes a valid place for soul-making.
Psyche into life means also taking life as psyche, life as a psychological adventure lived for the sake of soul.
— Myth of Analysis, Introduction, p 4-5