10-10-2009, 09:13 AM
HEALTH WARNING!
Christopher Hitchens can be dangerous to your health. It is strongly recommended that if he must be read (we reccommend otherwise), that children not be present in the same room.
Nor young animals.
Nor, for that matter other humans.
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