Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee
Posted by Megan Power in
Simon & Schuster
"...I had been reading Carl Jung, who, after World War II, long consumed by the question of what made people evil, or complicit in evil, settled on a single, elegant explanation. He believed that ostracizing any aspect of the human experience, however ugly, created a "shadow" of our rejected bits that we drag behind us. If we do not see that the shadow belongs to us, we project it onto others, both individually and as a culture. To face and own what most disturbs you about yourself, Jung believed, is the among the central moral tasks of being human."