26-10-2016, 08:12 AM
Very similar childhood with guns and war playing having been such a central part - I guess because I was born just after WWII. Strange then how all three of us, and doubtless many others too, broke out of that war-play and cold war propaganda model.
I liked your analogy Lauren, of the door without a knob to get back to "reality".
I liked your analogy Lauren, of the door without a knob to get back to "reality".
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