CHAOS THEORY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEXES

Jung's Notion of the Complex as "Strange Attractor

That people should succumb to these eternal images is entirely normal, in fact it is what these images are for. They are meant to ATTRACT, to convince, to fascinate, and to overpower. They are created out of the primal stuff of revelation.

--C.G. Jung, COLLECTED WORKS, Vol. 9

If the charge of one (or more) of the "nodal points" becomes so powerful that it "magnetically" (acting as a nuclear cell") ATTRACTS everything to itself and so confronts the ego with an alien entity...that has become autonomous--then we have a complex.

--Jolande Jacobi, COMPLEX, ARCHETYPE, AND SYMBOL