01-12-2009, 10:43 AM
A fabulously insightful article, I thought.
The impression I gained at the time of the Yeltsin, post communistic era was that the rape and plunder of Russia was part and parcel of a long term US/Western strategy to ensure the phoenix could never rise from the ashes again.
The impression I gained at the time of the Yeltsin, post communistic era was that the rape and plunder of Russia was part and parcel of a long term US/Western strategy to ensure the phoenix could never rise from the ashes again.
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