Psychoanalysis allows us to examine these forces, memories, and relationships, and make sense of who we are: omnipotent and vulnerable and loving and unforgiving and tender and angry and joyful and sad. Yes, we are contradictory in nature, and what allows for growth and personal transformation is not erasing parts of who we are, but holding together our contradictions.
Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)
Walt Whitman