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Fascination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never exercised by one person alone; it needs an unconscious disposition in the one fascinated — otherwise it does not take place.

Fascination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the attraction between consciousness and a projected content that still belongs to the whole personality — the drowned King's cry for help from the depths.

Fascination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not personal liking when a doctor is gripped by a case: those feelings are themselves governed by the patient's activated unconscious, so doctor and patient end up in a relationship founded on mutual unconsciousness.

Fascination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no proof of truth: the alluring partner seems compounded of all we have failed to realize in ourselves, and by analysing every fascination we find we meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises.

Fascination (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a patient's "Bannung": attention pulled from the stimulus to objects in the room to cover a gap left by a complex, like abruptly changing the subject of an unpleasant conversation.

Fascination (n.) exerted ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠by the shadow can be countered only by another fascinosum, not by reason: by an illumination equal to the darkness yet the exact opposite of "enlightenment."