<P> The term also applied to a town crier, an officer of the court who made public pronouncements in the name of the ruling monarch, and often including bad news . Harming a town crier was considered treason . </P> <P> Sigmund Freud considered shooting the messenger a "marginal case of this kind of defense...of fending off what is distressing or unbearable", citing the example of "the famous lament of the Spanish Moors Ay de mi Alhama, which tells how King Boabdil received the news of the fall of his city of Alhama . He feels that this loss means the end of his rule . But he will not' let it be true...He threw the letters in the fire and killed the messenger"'. </P> <P> Freud added that "a further determinant of this behaviour of the king was his need to combat a feeling of powerlessness . By burning the letters and having the messenger killed he was still trying to show his absolute power ." </P> <P> Carl G. Jung, a peer of Freud's, describes the shadow in the individual as part of the unconscious mind, which is largely negative . "Everyone carries a shadow", Jung wrote, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is". It may be in part one's links to more primitive animal instincts, which are superseded in early childhood by the conscious mind . V.G. Hufnagel, a bioethics expert wrote, "the shadow of the institution protects its own fraternity". The fraternity members form a collective and share a collective consciousness with a predatory instinctive animal in nature and hold the fears of childhood . These fears stimulate actions to destroy any message that may harm them . There is no cognitive process in these actions . These are forced on death of an individual and of an idea through human sacrifice . There are religious aspects to these actions . The fraternity of authority believes it holds a right to exterminate those who could harm them . The shadow is a part of the "psychology of institutions". Institutions have enormous funds to use unlike an individual whistleblower . Institutions also have massive communication systems and a loyal population that supports the institution . </P>

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