Synopsis: Seven of Nine is recruited by an officer from a Starfleet Timeship of the future to repair a timeline.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s understanding of how a complex is created and can be used to help heal the psyche.
In “Relativity” because of the super-human perception of her Borg implants, Seven of Nine is recruited to assist Captain Braxton and Lt. Ducane of the Federation Timeship Relativity to locate a temporal weapon that was placed in Voyager in the past. Seven is sent back in time to various moments aboard Voyager, including when the vessel was first in dry dock at Utopia Planitia and when Voyager was under attack by the Kazon. Each time she is sent back, Seven risks acquiring temporal psychosis. When she recovers the weapon, she learns the identity of the individual that sabotaged Voyager is Braxton himself, who is suffering from temporal psychosis.
In this episode Braxton is suffering from temporal psychosis, causes by too many missions being sent back in time. This can be analogized to an initial wounding in our psyche. Placing a temporal weapon in the past in Voyager can be compared to creating a complex, one way in which the Eros-driven irrational unconscious can alert the Logos-driven rational conscious ego that there are some bits of material in it that need to be paid attention to. Sometimes, instead of doing this the conscious ego will suppress the bits of unconscious material, but when this happens, they tend to return, stronger every time. When Braxton enlists the aid of Seven to help him solve the mystery of who placed the weapon aboard Voyager and finds that it was he himself, this can be seen as illustrating how by integrating the bits of unconscious material into itself the conscious ego becomes stronger and the psyche more whole.
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