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The author suggests that psychoanalysis at the time of Freud was determined by patriarchally oriented thought, while analytical psychology showed then, as now, tendencies to matriarchal consciousness.
Psychoanalysis was more father and conflict oriented—what mattered was making the unconscious conscious in contrast to Jung, who considered the conscious and unconscious as equivalent. The author mentions Blanck and Blanck, Hartmann, Spitz, Jacobson and Mahler, who seem to have drawn near to Jung in describing the ego as having an organising or synthetic function. Blanck and Blanck see ego development determined by ‘organisers’ which seem to correspond to the archetypal principles described by Jung. The origin of these principles appears to reside in an ‘undifferentiated matrix’. This matrix seems to correspond to Jung's primeval unconscious or Fordham's primary self.
The author suggests that analytical psychology as a system corresponds to rather early stages of ego-development, and gives examples. To quote a few: a definite relationship to matriarchal consciousness as opposed to patriarchal orientation;