01-04-2009, 01:24 PM
I'm sorry to say I agree Magda. It's rubbing balm on to voters. But the voters don't know that the balm contains an agent that numbs their nerves so they don't feel it as they the get shafted.
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