03-04-2009, 09:00 AM
Last evening I watched the excellent film "Good Night and Good Luck" about the fight of Edward J Murrow and his fight against Joseph McCarthy and his bloody horrible and appalling Un-American Activities Committee.
This case strikes me as a modern repeat of this inherently mean, nasty and neanderthal attitude that seems to infest American political life from time to time.
This case strikes me as a modern repeat of this inherently mean, nasty and neanderthal attitude that seems to infest American political life from time to time.
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