31-03-2010, 09:12 AM
If ever the people of the post communist Soviet Republics wanted to know what illness western style "democracy and freedom" had in store for them, the western backed plundering of the 1990's that gave rise to an even more powerful Red Mafiya and the arrival of dozens of Oligarchs was the antidote to their delusion.
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