11-12-2013, 09:25 AM
As parents, they've paid an unimaginably heavy price for any charges of neglect that might be levelled at them.
There are no perfect parents. You learn on the job as you go. Errors and mistakes of judgement are inherent in the process.
There are no perfect parents. You learn on the job as you go. Errors and mistakes of judgement are inherent in the process.
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