The spirit of the depths forced me to say this and at the same time to undergo it against myself since I had not expected it then. I still labored misguidedly under the spirit of this time, and thought differently about the human soul. I thought and spoke much of the soul. I knew many learned words for her, I had judged her and turned her into a scientific object. I did not consider that my soul cannot be the object of my judgment and knowledge; much more are my judgment and knowledge the objects of my soul. Therefore the spirit of the depths forced me to speak to my soul, to call upon her as a living and self-existing being. I had to become aware that I had lost my soul.
深度精神强迫我这么说，同时我还要忍受它施加于我的压力，因为我当时还没有做好心理准备。（准备，准备！老是准备，甚至永远都只是准备！我们究竟需要怎样的准备呢？人总是那么懒惰，总是随着惯性的作用，在明明已然知道是死路、歧路，明明已经受到了折磨和痛苦的煎熬，为什么还要在这条都是负性印迹的道路上，留下长长的、崎岖坎坷的滑行轨迹，甚至用一条并不完美的抛物线，作为自己人生的最后图表。确实，我们有这样那样的理由，但与向上向善、与成就自我、与寻找新的希望和突破相比，这些理由都是那么苍白，仅仅说明我们自己的懦弱、懈怠和吝啬，只能说明你根本不愿意改变，不愿意给自己一个机会。非要万事俱备，心儿也凉了，花儿也蔫了，叶子都落了。“莫待老来方学道，孤坟多是少年人”，若有心愿，当下行动）
我依然错误地背负着时代精神（究竟是时代精神本身是错误的，还是对其的态度是错误的，或者都是错误的，是需要细细思考的问题），对人类的灵魂有着不同的思考。我对灵魂有大量的思考和谈论，我知道很多与他有关的学术词汇，我评判他并把他变成一个科学研究对象。我以前不认为，我的灵魂不可能成为评判和认知的对象，更不用说，评判和认知成为灵魂的对象。因此，深度精神强迫我与灵魂交谈，要求我把她当作一个有生命力且独立存在的生命。我必须意识到，我已丢失了“自己的”灵魂。
From this we learn how the spirit of the depths considers the soul: he sees her as a living and self-existing being, and with this he contradicts the spirit of this time for whom the soul is a thing dependent on man, which lets herself be judged and arranged, and whose circumference we can grasp. I had to accept that what I had previously called my soul was not at all my soul, but a dead system. Hence I had to speak to my soul as to something far off and unknown, which did not exist through me, but through whom I existed.
从此，我们开始明白深度精神如何看待灵魂：它将她视为一个有生命力且独立存在的生命，在这一点上，它和时代精神的看法相反，时代精神认为灵魂是依附于人的东西。（我们真得需要对灵魂有一个清晰的定义，尽管这实在太难，否则，我们就无法确保自己作为万物之灵的特殊性，但任何尝试，往往导向一个可悲的结果，也就是我们根本不具备这样的特殊性）
她让自己接受评判和安排，我们能够理解她周围的一切。但是，我现在必须承认，我之前所称作的灵魂实际上根本不是我的灵魂（有如此思考实在不容易），而是一套死气沉沉的系统（荣格在《草稿》中继续写道：“是我精心设计的和从所谓的实验与评判中获得的死气沉沉的系统”）。
因此，我必须把灵魂当作一个遥远且未知的事物与之交谈，他并不是通过我存在，而我却通过他存在。
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