09-09-2014, 09:46 AM
Aye. But I'm a cynic and harbour a modest suspicion that this was a done deal anyway. It has always struck me as odd, from day one. Let's remember how many members of our political elite are Celts. The name Cameron, as in David, has a distant plaid skirt background doesn't it? So many Scots have run the UK over the decades, we English desperately need representation.
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