Slaying the dragon

I snapped this picture in Basel and this image lies directly across the entrance of Jung's Gymnasium, into which and from which he would have entered and exited daily during his school days.

Jung often wrote of the struggle with "regression" and the desire to fall back into the "bosom of the family" especially the "mother's bosom." Its the falling back into the comfort of the known, which at some point comes in conflict with the desire to break from the past and move into new and unknown territories. This impulse emerges from some internal place and creates a psychological imperative to break free of the old comfortable order.

Jung quotes Nietzsche at length: "We must suppose that a mind in which the ideal of the 'free spirit' can grow to maturity and perfection has had its decisive crisis in some great act of emancipation, and that before this it was a spirit bound and apparently chained for ever to its corner and pillar. What binds it most tightly?...it is the ties of duty: the reverence that befits youth, respect and tenderness for all the time-honoured and valued things, feelings of gratitude for the soil whence they grew, for the hand that guided them, for the shrine where they learned to pray--their highest moments are the very ones that bind them most firmly, that put them under the most enduring obligations. The great emancipation comes suddenly for those who are so bound...A sudden horror and mistrust of what is loved, a flash of contempt for its so-called 'duty,' a rebellious, wilful, volcanically impelling desire for travel, strangeness, estrangement, coldness...a hatred of love, perhaps a sacrilegious grasp and glance backwards to everything it had worshiped and loved till then..."

Emancipation into new ways of being, new perspectives, new insights, and new psychological vistas, if we follow Nietzsche here, are accompanied by irreverance, contempt, rebelliousness, wanderlust, mistrust, coldness, and a hatred of old love ties. What about this?