08-03-2016, 02:00 PM
By the way, I've just received my copy of Levenda's The Dark Lord and will try to remember to report back on it when I have finished reading it. The Collective Shadow is a particular interest of mine and I will be interested in learning how Levenda's insights jibe or differ from Jung on this.
So far - and I have only read the preface by James Wassermann I am encouraged because Wassermann notes in regard to the Dark Lord (the archetype rather than the book title: "Yet at the end (and this is the point) when we do at last encounter Him, who will we meet but ourselves?"
That is indeed is the point, and the subject, and the future.
So far - and I have only read the preface by James Wassermann I am encouraged because Wassermann notes in regard to the Dark Lord (the archetype rather than the book title: "Yet at the end (and this is the point) when we do at last encounter Him, who will we meet but ourselves?"
That is indeed is the point, and the subject, and the future.
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