TR pt2 ch1 The Jungian thing from Full Metal Jacket

[edmoorester at gmail.com]

Man I forgot this quote until just recently. . . .

Full Metal Jacket (aka The Short Timers)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VHKpGJX29s&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Pogue Colonel: You write "Born to Kill" on your helmet and you wear a peace  
button. What's that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?
Private Joker: No, sir.
Pogue Colonel: You'd better get your head and your ass wired together, or I  
will take a giant shit on you.
Private Joker: Yes, sir.
Pogue Colonel: Now answer my question or you'll be standing tall before the  
man.
Private Joker: I think I was trying to suggest something about the duality  
of man, sir.
Pogue Colonel: The what?
Private Joker: The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.

and I had to try to squeeze in another "Blood Meridian" quote:

"God speaks in the least of creatures.

The kid thought him to mean birds or things that crawl but the expriest,  
watching, his head slightly cocked, said:

No man is give leave of that voice.

The kid spat into the fire and bent to his work. I aint heard no voice, he  
said.

When it stops, said Tobin, you'll know you've heard it all your life.

Is that right?

Aye.

ed

Jed wrote:
"Such a submission (of ego to self) means *the recognition* that man
has two sides of such equal importance that they cannot be reconciled;
their conflict has to be suffered." [Jung in The Integration of
the Personality (49.3-5)]

"The alchemists declare again and again that the opus emerges from one
thing and leads back again to the One; it is thus in a certain sense a
circle like a dragon that bites itself in the tail." (IP, 227.16-19).
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