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Carl Jung

Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Carl Jung

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Carl Jung is saying that love and the desire to control or dominate cannot exist fully together because they oppose each other. When one is present strongly, the other is weak or missing, making them inseparable opposites.

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