Synopsis: Seven of Nine experiences past visions of being assimilated by the Borg.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of how the Logos-driven rational conscious ego may become aware of bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious, through what Carl (C. G.) Jung would call a feeling toned complex.
In “The Raven” when Voyager enters a new area of space Seven of Nine begins to have visions of being assimilated by the Borg that also contain images of large black birds flying. At the same time dormant Borg cells start to reactivate inside Seven. As it turns out, a Borg signal is coming from a nearby moon. When Seven and Lt. Commander Tuvok go there, they discover the ship Seven was on with her parents twenty years ago, The Raven, partially assimilated by the Borg.
In this episode the visions that Seven is having of the Borg and ravens, which she cannot immediately make any sense of, are an illustration of how bits of information from the irrational unconscious may appear to the rational conscious ego. And the need that Seven has, to find out what they mean, can be analogized to how humans experience a feeling toned complex, one way in which the unconscious makes the conscious ego aware of psychic wounds. The answers to what the visions and images mean are not necessarily as easily connected as they are here, but when the conscious ego does acknowledge the bits of unconscious information, then it starts to becomes stronger and the psyche more whole.
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