Jung is not offering consolation here. He is describing a structural necessity that most spiritual practice — and most therapy — quietly works around. The complex is not overcome by understanding it, witnessing it, reframing it, or submitting it to interpretation. It is overcome by living it out to the full. That word, *full*, bears the weight. Not partially. Not under controlled conditions. Not metabolized from a safe analytical distance.

What we have held at a distance is precisely the material that has organized us from the outside. The complex pulls like gravity, and the ego responds by developing elaborate architectures of not-going-there — productivity, insight, devotion, busyness, the pursuit of the very next better thing. All legitimate. None of it the drinking-down Jung means. The dregs are the part after the understanding runs out, after the insight stops feeling good, after there is nothing left to frame.

This is why the language of *development* here surprises. Jung does not say: to be healed, or to be free. He says: to develop further. The complex is not a wound to seal but a gate. What is behind the gate is not pleasant. It is simply necessary, and it opens only from the inside.