Exordium: Meaning a beginning. “Meeting Erik Erikson had a very profound effect upon me. When I first went to Zurich, I had an ego that was–well, to say that it was loosely put together would be enormously flattering. It was in about the same kind of shape as a dandelion that’s gone to seed. If you went FWOOSH, it blew to the four quarters of the earth. And it’s quite clear that at that stage in my career I couldn’t possibly have withstood the often prevalent, very, very tough reductive analyses that were being dealt out by Freud and his followers…. As Erickson said, there were a lot of people who get back to somewhere between nothing and five alright, but then they didn’t return to age 71 or 43 1/2 or 29 1/2; they were still shuttling around… in a dazed kind of way. (I don’t think he got overwhelming applause with that kind of comment, but this is a reasonable paraphrase.)” (Joseph B. Wheelwright, Saint George and the Dandelion: 40 Years of Practice as a Jungian Analyst, p. 11) 
