06-03-2009, 12:25 PM
You have to tip your hat to De Gaulle for having the balls to give the finger to America in the first place. I don't see that it has harmed them financially. Maybe the rest of us should follow the example now that France are stepping back into the fold?
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