In the intensity of the emotional disturbance itself lies the value, the energy which he should have at his disposal in order to remedy the state of reduced adaptation... One tendency seems to be the regulating principle of the other; both are bound together in a compensatory relationship... the bringing together of opposites for the production of a third: [this is] the transcendent function... The shuttling to and fro of arguments and affects represents the transcendent function of opposites. The confrontation of the two positions generates a tension charged with energy and creates a living, third thing — not a logical still-birth in accordance with the principle tertium non datur but a movement out of the suspension between opposites, a living birth that leads to a new level of being, a new situation. The transcendent function manifests itself a quality of conjoined opposites... The more direct and natural the answer is, the more valuable it will be, for directness and naturalness guarantee a more or less total reaction.
— Carl Jung, 'The Transcendent Function'
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