15-09-2009, 04:15 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Quote:The question, I suppose, is how something so public admitted can be so readily overlooked.That's what the MSM is for.
Which was precisely the point made to me by Sir Teddy Taylor, the somewhat rightist Conservative MP, when I interviewed for an article on the subject. He, incidentally also appeared on the same TV programme I mentioned earlier. And, as a former Journalist, had a keen eye for the tricks of the rag trade.
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