10-03-2014, 09:38 AM
It's a question I, too, have asked. For me it seems back to front. I would've thought that 9/11 would be the primary research subject with JFK well in second place.
I do wonder if it is fear. Killing one man, even a president, is not unusual from the perspective of history. But 9/11 was altogether a "bigger", more audacious and, it has to be said, more heartless event. Dealing with that mentally and emotionally, means you have to step away from everything you've learned about life, your nation and your government, and thus everything you hold true.
In the last analysis I think people are scared.
I do wonder if it is fear. Killing one man, even a president, is not unusual from the perspective of history. But 9/11 was altogether a "bigger", more audacious and, it has to be said, more heartless event. Dealing with that mentally and emotionally, means you have to step away from everything you've learned about life, your nation and your government, and thus everything you hold true.
In the last analysis I think people are scared.
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