20-02-2014, 02:04 PM
I also have sympathy for John Simkin about this seemingly ineradicable problem.
The destructiveness of various researchers on these subjects often leaves me astonished. Intelligent men behaving like spoiled children bickering for the sake of it. For me it's a combination of arrogance, an over indulged ego and a love of drawing blood that lies at the root of it.
The destructiveness of various researchers on these subjects often leaves me astonished. Intelligent men behaving like spoiled children bickering for the sake of it. For me it's a combination of arrogance, an over indulged ego and a love of drawing blood that lies at the root of it.
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