24-12-2018, 11:58 AM
it sort of baffles me too. I think it likely has more to do with the US deep state strategy of perpetual PR war on Russia -- the desire to have a perpetual enemy in order to ensure a war budget keeps getting approved to keep the defence industry in clover.
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