Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: Latest archived (Apr 2026)
This paper integrates Structural Intelligence with Jungian psychology, trauma theory, validation, attachment, shame, dissociation, defense, and psychological repair. It argues that psychological suffering often intensifies when a local psychic form is forced to carry the burden of the whole subject. Persona, wound, role, attachment strategy, shame-identity, trauma defense, complex, or relational script may become fused with Being. When this occurs, correction feels annihilating, validation becomes confused with agreement, and protective structures can become internal governors of the psyche. Structural Intelligence adds a grammar for distinguishing the person from the local forms through which the person suffers, adapts, defends, and heals. Psychological repair requires contact, pacing, and de-fusion: the wound must be honored without being enthroned, and the subject must be able to contact the truth of a local form without being reduced to it.
Structural Intelligence; Jung; Self; fixed worth; trauma; validation; persona; shadow; complex; individuation; attachment; shame; dissociation; repair; Being; de-fusion; psychological repair