25-11-2010, 10:00 AM
My take is that George is so much in love with George that everything else is dims into a very distant second place.
A Jesus complex is not, in my opinion, something that is healthy in any professional life be it religious or business. But it is particularly dangerous in political life.
Like Peter P, I regard Left and Right as the true impostors they are. The former Crime Minister, Tony Blair actually was a Conservative "lite" whose hero was Herr Margaret Thatchler, and the current Deputy Crime Minister, Nick Clegg (LibDem) used to be a "Young Conservative" when at Uni - a period he now says he really can't remember very well at all, when asked about it.
A Jesus complex is not, in my opinion, something that is healthy in any professional life be it religious or business. But it is particularly dangerous in political life.
Like Peter P, I regard Left and Right as the true impostors they are. The former Crime Minister, Tony Blair actually was a Conservative "lite" whose hero was Herr Margaret Thatchler, and the current Deputy Crime Minister, Nick Clegg (LibDem) used to be a "Young Conservative" when at Uni - a period he now says he really can't remember very well at all, when asked about it.
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