This is precisely where Hindu-Buddhist thought integrates the psychological and the metaphysical. 

• The Skandhas (Aggregates) in Buddhism directly map onto psychoanalytic concepts—perception (samjna), feeling (vedana), mental formations (samskara) are all conditioning factors, much like Freud’s repressed unconscious or Jung’s archetypal framework.

• Shakti, as the Great Mother, embodies the integration of all opposites—benevolence and malevolence, creation and destruction—much like Neumann’s Great Mother archetype. 

• The Dashavatara (Ten Avatars of Vishnu) reveal the psycho-spiritual evolution of human consciousness—from primal instinct (Matsya, the fish) to embodied wisdom (Buddha, integration). Yet, Buddha does not erase the struggle—he arrives after it. The evolutionary process cannot bypass the primal; it must integrate it. This is what modern discourse fails to see.

• The West has tended toward repression and compartmentalization—separating the sacred from the profane, the spiritual from the material, creating an internal disassociation. 

• The East, while preserving the integration in its spiritual traditions, has suffered under political and social structures that enforce division rather than unity.

• Neither has fully realized the potential of integration.