17-03-2010, 06:59 PM
Not that I understand the intricacies and minutiae Jim, but I do appreciate the JVB posts -- because without having my attention directed to a thread over at the EF, I just won't go there. The JFK section may be very good, but if I ever have a desire to surround myself with the prevailing attitudes that now dominates that forum, I'll simply take a trip to a porcus abattoir.
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