Jung names the trap precisely: not failure to begin, but getting stuck — the conflict hardening into dissociation rather than resolving into anything. What he calls the "counter-will" is the part of you that does not want what your conscious agenda wants, the refusal that shows up as symptom, sabotage, fatigue, or sudden indifference. The temptation is to manage it, spiritualize it, explain it away — to treat it as an obstacle to the real work rather than as the work itself. Jung refuses that convenience. He insists the counter-will is also an aspect of God's will, which is his way of saying it carries the same weight, the same legitimacy, as whatever you have decided you want to become.

The danger he flags — neurotic dissociation — is not dramatic. It looks like sustained ambivalence, like a person who keeps circling the same material without anything shifting, who has become expert at describing their conflict rather than living inside it until something moves. The conflict of duties he describes is not resolvable by additional clarity. It requires something closer to endurance: staying with a tension that pulls in two genuine directions long enough for a third thing to emerge from it, not chosen, not willed, but arrived at.