24-01-2009, 01:04 PM
Quote:However, the Israeli plan, reported Jane's, needed the "trigger" of a suicide bombing which would cause "numerous deaths and injuries [because] the 'revenge' factor is crucial". This would "motivate Israeli soldiers to demolish the Palestinians".
How useful "triggers" appear to be. One thinks not just of the Reich-stag fire, or of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, but also of 911 - an event that doubtless motivated that all too crucial need for "revenge".
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