28-11-2014, 02:59 PM
Trouble is that recent generations haven't read Orwell and a lot of them are lost to the world inside their Mbox, Playstations games etc., and when they shuffle off those for a breath of air, they're on their mobile phones to their FB and social networks - or texting their chums back and forth.
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