26-07-2011, 06:18 PM
In 1939 Otto Rank, Freud's favorite student accd. to some, described the creation of the soul from the pre-historic understanding of the shadow as something real. Since pre-historic people didn't know the Sun as anything more than a heat source their view of the shadow cast by their body meant something more profound than just a shadow connected to the Sun's presence. As much as I appreciate Jung I wonder how he and Rank got along as contemporaries with Rank's rational minimizing of the shadow? I don't know since I haven't dug deep or long enough.