09-11-2009, 03:41 PM
Sadly I doubt anyone here does know more as we've discussed it before and no additions were posted on those occasions. I certainly don't anyway. But it would be a good subject to have someone investigate more deeply.
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