Where's Your Conflict Lie?

Is the struggle to free ourselves up to work better and love more a contest whose battlefield resides in the social and the cultural, ala Marxism? Or might it be better to suggest that the battlefield resides within, ala Freud and psychoanalysis?

For example, if we do something we are not particularly aroused by in terms of working and loving we are going to experience an internal conflict. The Self, ala Jung, will plague us. The soul will rebel; she will generate symptoms until we align with our Muse, passion, daemon, and so forth.

The alternative conflict seems to be one where we align with the Self and then experience resistance without--in the social and cultural. The struggle becomes one of finding our Way amidst the crowd, the herd, the masses. We may expereince peace and harmony psychologically, while experiencing a degree of conflict in our relationships with others--meaning, those who may not understand the designs and contours of the soul that can only be called 'our own.'