Jung in context. Modernity and the making of a psychology

analysis), or by internal signposting. At times its prose is hard to pin down. Thus p. 34: Throughout Freud's writings we find that sexuality evokes a certain sluggishness in the mental apparatus, an absence of thought. (Though we should also be clear that this mysterious recalcitrance was also the occasion for the greatest intellectual efforts of which the psyche was capable; the problems posed by the recalcitrance of sexuality are the roots of intellectual activity.)