Gene/Shadow

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Hello Gene,

> I feel that people do not understand that Jung practiced, very

> deliberately, a discipline of _resisting coming to conclusion_. If you

> think about it, such can be responsible for the unending outpouring of his

> creativity. He seldom stated anything as 'final and complete'. It is he who

> we have to thank, for the concept of the 'shadow', the understading of

> which can 'explain' what evil 'is'...

 

The concept of the raising of the concept of the shadow is an interesting one in

the 20 Th. century, and i do thank Jung for putting a flash light on it on the

level as how an individual comes to look at himself as a conscious entity. But

this

20 Th. century is fascinating in other "entities" that come to touch their

"shadow"

part. Like the concept of the state in politics, monarchic and rigid, well

reflected in the Prince by Machiavalli, and even in the Republic from Plato,

where

it is the world of "ideas", expressed by the ruling class of philosophers, that

governs. Marx was the Jung of politics, in a way, creating a reflecting shadow,

the

work class, to the leading power. Same in physics, with Einstein, turning the

solid

matter governed by pure rigid law into a shadow condensed cloud of energy.

 

Of course all this is only a game as long as i define myself as a citizen or a

material being (i.e. when i hold my hammer to bang a nail in the wall at work:),

but even then...)

 

Antoine