24-01-2015, 09:01 AM
David Andrews Wrote:The Deep State no longer exists, in the same way that Freud's "repressed state" has vanished: No more is there the unconscious, the hidden - Everything thrives now and prospers upon the surface!
Where did these things - the deep state and the unconscious go, David?
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