08-03-2016, 10:06 AM
I couldn't agree more with you Pete, about the so called "research community" and the incessant in-fighting and personality bitching and fighting. It always surprised me to see such bitter divides over such astonishingly tiny difference when I first got into these matters. It's so very destructive to watch ego's look for the most minuscule flaw they can jump on to argue over.
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