"By rejecting the papal magisterium and affirming the priesthood of all believers, it appears to shift the crucifixion of opposites onto the individual. However, the individual is not asked to hold the tension internally; rather, the tension is externalized onto sola scriptura - the Bible as the sole infallible authority. The believer is not required to metabolize the contradiction between divine goodness and worldly evil; they are required to submit to the text and its (often pastorally mediated) interpretation. The crucifixion is still offloaded, not to a hierarchical priest, but to a closed canon and a personal relationship with a God who remains within the privatio boni framework (all-good, evil as absence). This creates a different psychological economy: the Protestant carries the weight of direct accountability to God without a human intermediary, but the weight is still borne by an external reference point. The result is greater doctrinal fragmentation (each denomination becomes its own institutional clearinghouse) and a tendency toward moral certainty that can be more brittle than Catholic casuistry. Protestantism does not produce individuation in the Jungian sense because the opposites are still externalized – they are projected onto the text, the conscience, or the personal relationship with Christ – rather than held internally without resolution. It is institutional containment without a centralized sanitation worker, which often means the believer ends up doing more of the psychological work themselves, but still within a framework that forecloses genuine confrontation with the void."

https://livingopposites.substack.com/p/the-fork-in-the-architecture-of-the#footnote-8

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915255&forum_id=2.#50208494)

"We can see this in the Catholic Magisterium, where the Church acts as the ‘Vicar of Christ’ to resolve the paradoxes of sin and grace for the believer. Just as the Lurianic system uses Rabbinical guidance to navigate the Sefirot, the Catholic hierarchy functions as a spiritual ‘load-bearer.’ By claiming the sole authority to interpret divine will, the institution absorbs the crucifixion of opposites - the paralyzing weight of moral uncertainty - so the individual can focus on communal life and obedience. This is the essence of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor: the elite few accept the terrible burden of freedom and the knowledge of good and evil so that the many may live in a state of peaceful, humble happiness."

"This offloading dynamic is not unique to the Jewish tradition - any elite coordination system must externalize the crucifixion of opposites to maintain hierarchical stability across generations, because internal crucifixion produces distributed psychological sovereignty that is structurally incompatible with centralized command. Catholicism is a good example of this - rigidly hierarchical, confessional for the absolution of sin. Protestantism represents a decentralized variant of the institutional response."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5915255&forum_id=2.#50208531)