27-03-2009, 10:21 AM
Jack, I'm sure he didn't write "The Prince" as Machiavelli was responsible for that tomb that still haunts modern business and politics :damnmate:
At least I don't think he did. But he does seem to have had am amazing output, I agree.
I also used to be astonished at the sheer output of Jung too. His Collected Works are, by and large, heavy and dense tombs with enormous footnotes and references - things that obviously were not rushed. To write his few volumes of Alchemy he had read every extant volume on the subject available in Latin, Greek etc and then condensed these and had the largest private library on the subject at that time. It was an enormous effort but formed just one part of his output.
I think this is something Polymaths have at their command.
At least I don't think he did. But he does seem to have had am amazing output, I agree.
I also used to be astonished at the sheer output of Jung too. His Collected Works are, by and large, heavy and dense tombs with enormous footnotes and references - things that obviously were not rushed. To write his few volumes of Alchemy he had read every extant volume on the subject available in Latin, Greek etc and then condensed these and had the largest private library on the subject at that time. It was an enormous effort but formed just one part of his output.
I think this is something Polymaths have at their command.
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