02-04-2013, 02:27 PM
It's a shit world these days Magda. The asylum's been taken over by the inmates. Business can do no wrong - they are the Masters of the Universe. So many people and entities turn their bottoms to them, pols, cops, you name it. It's truly sickening.
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