Neumann is diagnosing a structural imbalance, but the cure he offers runs straight through the pneumatic ratio — the logic that if we integrate enough, become whole enough, achieve the right synthesis, the danger will recede. That move deserves scrutiny before it is accepted. "Wholeness" in this passage functions as a destination: arrive at it, face the threats, survive. The word "urgently" tightens the argument into something close to a crisis-logic, the soul arming itself against what threatens from within and without.

What the passage obscures is that the masculine overemphasis Neumann maps so brilliantly across five thousand years of imagery did not happen because Western consciousness forgot to include something. It happened because the feminine — in its chthonic, devouring, non-redemptive register — was genuinely unbearable to bear. The exclusion had reasons. A synthesis that does not reckon with those reasons risks producing not wholeness but a more decorative one-sidedness: the Great Mother admitted on condition that she arrive already transformed, already safe, already compatible with the ego's continuing centrality. The actual archetype, as Neumann's own iconography shows, does not come on those terms.