05-02-2009, 04:45 PM
Perhaps it is those awful "advisers" who are leveraged in to ensure things are pushed in the right direction as you suggest Magda? In Brown's case it would be the bloody awful Mandelson, Bildrberger extraordinaire...
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