Histrionic personalities often remind me of an angry but small animal protecting its young against a powerful predator with a kind of desperate anger. Histrionic people are the bravest of the personalities.

-Integrated Analytical Psychology, Chapter 15

The histrionic tendency to approach a feared object recapitulates early attachment trauma with powerful objects, which demand navigation of love and fear, setting up a characteristic approach/avoidance conflict with which reaches its apogee in splitting.

From Integrated Analytical Psychology, Chapter 16

The narcissist discovered the self as center of power, manifestly potent but subjectively incomplete; the depressive discovers self as instrument and agency, a manifestation of consciousness that can be used like to affect one’s duty but lacking in the expansive powers of the narcissistic self.

Both narcissistic and depressive dynamics are concerned with the elaboration of the self, the narcissistic dynamic representing the development of the self in a power-centered, coercive way, and the depressive dynamic in a melancholy, lonely, and quietly despairing way.

whether as a result of defenses (radical discontinuities within the system), Lacan’s "glissement" (the ultimate impossibility of successful signification), or mental illness, which represents patternistic ways in which representation and intentionality break down.
-Integrated Analytical Psychology

The attractors of the system are primordial symmetrical models of desired end states (and therefore instinctive), and the dissipators of the system represent the array of reasons the symmetry breaks down, or fails to be successfully represented…(...)

It leads one up and out of the depressive core by replacing it with insouciance, gumption, bravado, or elemental thrill. Manic defenses counter the depressive core by disappearing guilt, and the psychological space from which it emerges.

This is a word so important that it doesn't exist. It refers to the restoration of inner morale, meaning, and moral imagination of a person or people, through love, truth, and reverent remembering rather than through command or correction, so that the psyche turns again toward the good.