10-03-2010, 01:57 PM
I wondered if there was a bit of preemptive blame storming going on in light of Inspector Knacker of the Yard's apparently pending investigation. Things being the way they are, it is always the former, retired boss who is seated beneath the dangling sword.
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