Synopsis: The U.S.S. Discovery and her crew continue their mission to escape the mirror universe.
This episode can be seen as another illustration of what Carl (C.G.) Jung would call a complex, when the conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of unconscious material that have been brough to its attention.
In “The Wolf Inside”Captain Gabriel Lorca, Lt. Ash Tyler, and Specialist Michael Burnham find themselves on the mirror universe’s I.S.S. Shenzhou, which Burnham is the captain of. Meanwhile, on the U.S.S. Discovery, Cadet Silvia Tilly and Commander Saru are trying to treat Lt. Paul Stamets, who is in a coma. Tilly believes that before Discovery entered the mirror universe, Stamets was receiving information about it through the mycelial network, which leads her to treat him with mycelium spores, which saves him. On the Shenzhou, Burnham is ordered by the Terran Emperor to destroy a rebel outpost on Harlak, which is where the Klingon rebel leader called Fire Wolf is located. Burnham and Tyler beam down to Harlak, and she asks to speak to Fire Wolf. Fire Wolf in the mirror universe is Voq in Discovery’s universe. Burnham tells Fire Wolf that she has been ordered to destroy the outpost, but will give them an hour to evacuate first, if he will tell her how it was possible for him to convince Klingons to join an alliance with Vulcans, Andorians, and other species. Fire Wolf agrees to her terms after his prophet, who is the mirror universe’s Sarek, assures him that Burnham means him no harm.
In this episode, similar to the last one, when Tilly realizes that the unintelligible things that Stamets has been saying were pieces of information from the mirror universe, this can be analogized to when bits of unconscious material come to the awareness of the conscious ego through a complex. A complex in the Jungian sense being an opportunity to gain self-knowledge. In this instance, Tilly understanding that the information that was coming to Stamets through the mycelial network, and paying attention to that, led to her devise a way to treat him and bring him out of the coma. This can be analogized to when the conscious ego acknowledges and integrates bits of material into itself, to become stronger and make the psyche more whole.
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