Carl Jung and the Psychoid Aspect of Matter

We are animals, as opposed to plants or inanimate objects (a virus being a curious transition between living and inanimate).. I once asked a Jungian M.D. what he considered to be Jung's greatest single work, and he replied a small monograph entitled "On the Nature of the Psyche". Jung describes there the "psychoid" aspect of matter, in that it strives towards consciousness. Jung states that if one day humans fire a rocket which destroys a portion of Mars, then one may say that it is the psychoid aspect of matter which developed into human consciousness and damaged Mars. Conversely, psyche has a material aspect (Freud's Death Wish) which strives to return to an inanimate state. These opposing dynamisms are as necessary to one another as liberal and conservative, pleasure and pain, good and evil, in short, the world of dualities.

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I find it interesting that quite possibly Neanderthal lived side by side with our ancestors for something like 50,000 years. But paleontology indicates that they never roamed more than 50 miles from their camp sites, while our ancestors migrated vast distances (see "The Great Journey" Spencer Wells). There is some evidence that our ancestors mated with the Neanderthal rarely, but there were sufficient genetic differences (e.g. horse, donkey, zebra) that the offspring was sterile.
see http://gogexplore.blogspot.com/2008/09/neanderthal-smarter-than-we-thought.html as one example at random