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The phrase ‘possessed by a complex’ can be almost trite in Jungian circles, a simple nomenclature designating that the ego has been usurped by other portions of the personality, that in our fluid, multiple selves, something ‘other’ than the way we would like ourselves to be has taken over. However, to those outside Jungian circles, the same phrase can sound like abdicating responsibility, or even a return to the middle-ages. In this book, Craig Stephenson, a Jungian analyst practising in Paris takes the concept of possession back to the middle-ages, deliberately invoking demonic imagery to reshape our thinking of possession beyond the dissociative characteristics of an