A true symbol appears only when there is a need to express what thought cannot think or what is only divined or felt. - Carl Jung

I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

Every archetype is capable of endless development and differentiation. It is therefore possible for it to be more developed or less. In an outward form of religion where all the emphasis is on the outward figure (hence where we are dealing with a more or less complete projection) the archetype is identical with externalized ideas but remains unconscious as a psychic factor. When an unconscious content is replaced by a projected image to that extent, it is cut off from all participation in an influence on the conscious mind. Hence it largely forfeits its own life, because prevented from exerting the formative influence on consciousness natural to it; what is more, it remains in its original form — unchanged, for nothing changes in the unconscious.