13-06-2014, 04:12 PM
You're right Maggie. It's that sort of fear-cum-complaency that allows these toilet bowl germs to survive and prosper.
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