Synopsis: Kes returns to confront Voyager and her crew after a long absence.
This episode can be seen as an illustration of what can happen when what Carl (C. G.) Jung called a complex erupts after bits of material from the Eros-driven irrational unconscious have been continually suppressed by the Logos-driven rational conscious ego.
In “Fury” and older and angrier Kes returns to Voyager. Unbeknownst to Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew, the reason Kes has returned is to seek revenge for them leaving her to fend for herself several years ago. This Kes enters Engineering and embraces the warp drive to give her the power to travel back in time, to re-write history. For some reason, Lt. Commander Tuvok is caught in Kes’s space travel, and his behavior alerts Janeway to what is going on. When Janeway confronts the older and angrier Kes, who has just stunned Kes from the previous time period to take her place, Janeway tells the furious Kes from the future that it was her choice to head out into space alone, but she does not believe her. Janeway saves the Kes from earlier time and asks her to record a message so that when this episode plays out in the future the older and angrier Kes will recognize what is going on.
In this episode, when Kes returns to Voyager full of fury, as its title indicates, she can be compared to how a complex, which is composed of bits of material from the unconscious, might erupt with a vengeance when it has been suppressed by the conscious ego too long. And although Jung taught that a complex is not necessarily a negative thing, but a way in which to gain self-knowledge, sometimes that process is painful, such as it is here. When the older and angrier Kes tells Janeway that the reason she is seeking vengeance is because Voyager’s crew left her alone in space, she is not able to listen to Janeway’s explanation that it was Kes herself who decided to head out into space to save the crew. However, by having the Kes from a previous time record a message to her future self for when this event will occur, to reason with her before she goes back in time to rewrite history a second time, the Kes from an earlier time is able to reach the older and angrier Kes. This can be analogized to when the conscious ego is able to integrate bits of the complex into itself before it becomes a harmful thing. In turn making the ego stronger and the psyche more whole.
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