10-02-2015, 10:03 AM
David Andrews Wrote:David Guyatt Wrote: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?
Meaning we no longer need the repressed and hidden to foster and rationalize evil now - it's all out there naked and unashamed, for those who will themselves look. Ask Prince Andrew.
I think it's still a long, long way from all being out there. But I agree things are heading in that direction.
The Collective Unconscious is the repository of the entire history of mankind - good and bad - and is not, therefore, something that can be exhausted.
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