29-01-2011, 10:23 AM
Predictive or preparative?
I nourish a tentative hypothesis that the "group mind" is often prepared at a deep psychological level for planned significant coming events.
The event still comes as a terrible shock, but isn't actually unthinkable.
I nourish a tentative hypothesis that the "group mind" is often prepared at a deep psychological level for planned significant coming events.
The event still comes as a terrible shock, but isn't actually unthinkable.
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