02-05-2014, 09:07 AM
I do love the way he suggests that J R R Tolkein was also a tool of long term political planning of the evil British empire, rather than being a professor of Anglo Saxon who wrote on enduring archetypal themes with a vast imaginative output (his short stories, notes and sketches published as the "Complete History of Middle Earth" run to 5392 pages).
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