identifying our complexes

A complex is a personal manifestation of archetypal energy. My feeling about this is that as we bring our personal unconscious to awareness, the healing happens on a collective level as well. I have been meditating on the characteristics of a complex; usually an intense, repeated experience in relationships- constellated around a central theme, it has a life of it's own, seeks expression in ways you ordinarily wouldn't find acceptable, there is an absence of empathy and the complex is powerfully inductive or self fulfilling. I am thinking about how early trauma may evoke particular complexes/ organize personality structure and interested in their archetypal origin. My love for therapy, tarot cards and astrology has something to do with this fascination around mythology, archetype and the collective unconscious.