Archetypal defenses, then, allow for survival at the expense of personality development. Their "goal" as I have come to understand it, is to keep the personal spirit "safe" but disembodied, encapsulated, or otherwise driven out of the body/mind unity - foreclosed from entering time and space reality. Instead of slowly and painfully incarnating in a cohesive self, the volcanic opposing dynamisms of the inner world become organized around defensive purposes, constituting a "self-care system" for the individual. Instead of individuation and integration of mental life, the archaic defense engineers dis-incarnation (dis-embodiment) and dis-integration in order to help a weakened anxiety-ridden ego to survive, albeit as a partially "false" self.