09-10-2013, 11:07 AM
The child pulled from the car and then Miriam Carey was shot dead? If this is true - and what else can it mean - then it is even worse than I originally thought.
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