14-03-2010, 12:24 PM
After you pointed this out Charlie, I looked again at the structure and damned if you aren't right. It's too pristine and clean to be actual conversation, and the back and forth clearly is aimed at amplification of the subject matter.
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