Integration turns pain into power because it reclaims exiled energy and reconnects it to purpose. For Jung, this is individuation—the lifelong process of becoming a whole person by uniting conscious identity with the unconscious (Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, rev. 1953; Aion, 1951). When anger is owned as a signal of violated values, it can fuel boundary-setting; when envy is faced, it can reveal a buried longing to develop capacity.
Thus, integration is not indulgence; it is transmutation. Pain stops being a tyrant and becomes information. With this principle in mind, Jung leaned on symbolic languages to show how the psyche performs such transformations. [...]
