We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified Shadow. And if such a person wants to be cured it is necessary to find a way in which his conscious personality and his Shadow can live together. CW 11: Psychology and Religion: par 132, pg 76
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And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow"
--- T. S. Eliot
Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear
Here we go round the prickly pear
At five o’clock in the morning.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
Between the conception
And the creation
Between the emotion
And the response
Falls the Shadow
Life is very long
Between the desire
And the spasm
Between the potency
And the existence
Between the essence
And the descent
Falls the Shadow
For Thine is the Kingdom
For Thine is
Life is
For Thine is the
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
TS Eliot, "The Hollow men"
Actually, I find a lot of joy in reading and understanding Jung's theory of the Shadow. It makes much more sense than a one-sided existence, which is impossible, and boring as hell. ;-)
talking. I think they strengthen that destructive drive.
Now there was a guy with a big shadow!!!
Ps, I am ready for a new Sherlock episode...my favorite bad good guy. ;-)
The background is disorienting and the whole picture is difficult to anchor in space.
Breaking Bad breaks me up. The cartel tolerated that moron because there was a shortage of brilliant meth cooks? Oh I do long for realism at times.
The other show I like is Homeland. Claire Dane rocks.