 Jung implies the diversity of psychic energies inhabiting the unconscious.He also cautions us to know these energies rather than force them into one’s shadow lest one’s “…moods, nervous states, and delusions make it clear in the most painful way that [one] is not the only master in his house…" 

Thomas Moore says of James Hillman’s teaching that he “portrays the psyche as inherently multiple”.In Hillman’s archetypal/polytheistic view, the psyche or soul has many directions and sources of meaning—and this can feel like an ongoing state of conflict—a struggle with one’s daimons.