15-01-2014, 06:12 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:For what it's worth I found his book badly written. Interesting story but really hard to read the book.
I tried reading it and gave up. One of the feelings I came away from our phone call was that he seemed to me to be quite muddled and unclear about a subject he was supposed to be an expert on.
Of course such things are very subjective, so I might be wrong...
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