Building a Border

If we picture the conscious mind, with the ego at its center, as being opposed to the unconscious, and if we now add to our mental picture the process of assimilating the unconscious, we can think of this assimilation as a king of approximation of conscious and unconscious, where the center of the total personality no longer coincides with that of the ego, but a point midway between the conscious and the unconscious. This would be the point of new equilibrium, a new centering of the total personality, a virtual center which, on account of its focal position between conscious and unconscious, ensures for the personality a new and more solid foundation.

-- C.G. Jung, “The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious,” CW7, par. 365