28-09-2015, 08:49 AM
On Maggie's Hammer, I read the MS awhile back for the author and Kris, the publisher, because the story references my old essay on Group 13 and Stephan Kock who had direct access to Thatcher in those days.
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