Shadow confronted

As Ambros continued, the inmates voices left me, and I suffered only the frustrating certainty that comes from thinking about overwhelming facts confronted by overwhelming lies. One time Ambros was there it was winter, he thought, and one s imagination saw on the Auschwitz plain only shadows on a vast expanse of snow. But no, it was summer. For Ambros, the season must always be summer because one or two inmates recalled something he would surely have heard or seen that winter of 1943. It was so cold the breath froze on the lips. Over near the construction office, several of the... 

Von Knieriem loved mystery. The "Shadow" factories were secretly manufacturing for war, the WIFO storage plants were "standing by" for war. But the most subtle camouflage was even more ominous. Confronted by a contract having something to do with the city of Ammendorf, Von Knieriem frowned. 

Likewise, when a solution has presented itself in both a microcosmic and macrocosmic way, the patient and analyst may both believe that the fundamental conflict has been resolved and that the patient is now contained within an ongoing and well established individuation process. After all, the patient has already confronted neuroses or complexes, has had an experience of the deep unconscious, has confronted the shadow, and has now begun to integrate the anima or animus. 

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