If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they…
It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses- and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. The individual seldom knows anything of this; to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. But let…
> Walt Kellly and Pogo
Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct…
No, the demons are not banished; that is a difficult task that still lies ahead. Now that the angel of history has abandoned the Germans,* the demons will seek a new victim. And that won’t be difficult. Every man who loses his shadow, every nation that falls into self-righteousness, is their prey…. We should not…
From Susan Smalley, Ph.D: Psychology Professor, UCLA The other night I attended one of the Red Book Dialogues at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. The Dialogues are a series of discussions between a celebrity (that night was Helen Hunt) and a psychoanalyst or Jungian scholar (that night was James Hillman) around The Red Book,…
In Saving Grace, Angel Earl plays a major role as a “last-chance” angel — trying to set police detective Grace Hanadarko straight about the existence of God. I have a friend who only saw the show once because he thought it was ridiculous having an angel in a police show. I like Earl. He chews…
The more I think about it, the more I am disturbed that Grace Hanadarko (in Saving Grace, reviewed yesterday) is a member of the police force. If she is in indeed a model of how a woman of the 21st century can be — tough, compassionate, comfortable with her sexuality, more than the equal to…
From Women and Hollywood Nancy Miller has worked on some of the most female-centric shows on TV… Last year her newest creation Saving Grace premiered on TNT. Grace is one of the most interesting and wild characters ever to appear on TV. She sometime looks like a train wreck waiting to happen but always manages…