Up: [[Analysis]] Course: Sacrifice and the Individuation Process, Stacey Jenkins, Montreal Jung Society Created: 2023-10-21 Updated: 2024-10-09 Your ego is committed to maintaining the status quo. It’s afraid or unwilling to make the changes, often the sacrifices, required for individuation. So what do you do when your ego has zero interest in the sacrifice that is necessary for you to move forward? You call on the archetype of the hero within. It’s the hero or heroine whose job it is to assimilate unconscious material rather than being overwhelmed by it. If we’re lucky, the hero archetype constellates in the psyche to help us take control away from the ego so that we can do the thing that we don’t want to do.