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Through conscious and unconscious dynamics, Constantine’s conflicts became world-transforming achievements.

The faith and resilience of his mother, Helena, and his father’s ambition shaped his psychological quest.

Unconscious wounds of abandonment and insecurity fueled his posttraumatic embrace of divine destiny.

When Constantine the Great (AD 272–337) consolidated power as the sole ruler of the Roman Empire, he initiated changes that permanently transformed both Western and Eastern civilizations. His legalization of Christianity, the founding of Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), and the merging of imperial authority with spiritual aspirations laid the cultural groundwork for the medieval period in Europe and the East, Byzantium.

In addition to his family relations, t

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