28-09-2015, 08:39 AM
It seems to me to be a complete game changer. Add to this mix the apparent arrival of 1,000 Chinese marines, and we see a line in the sand has been drawn. Washington & Tel Aviv etc need now to move extremely carefully.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14