I can't resist reproducing this single sentence by John Milbank, cited by Helm:
But since "return to self" is not after all quite perfectly reflexive at that point at which it must also seek to be a return to its own higher origin, which is inseparable from its inner selfhood, one can see that self reflection (as Plotinus already taught) is equally a "failed" attempt (though this failure has the positive value of apophasis) at perfection reflection, which in its "failure" constructs the world beneath the psyche and it thereby the "giving" to be of material reality in its diverse modes - even though, for Proclus already, this is the work of higher not human souls, since the latter are rather "fully descended" into the body (and therefore have their realm of donation within the realm of the imagination, culture and history). (19)
Helm's response is classic: "Easier, much easier, to parody than to understand."
