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May 17, 2024 · "In Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology, the shadow as a concept comprises everything the conscious personality experiences as negative. In dreams and fantasies the shadow appears with the characteristics of a personality of the same sex as the ego, but in a very different configuration.
- Mark Kelly
- 2020
- The Shadow: A Formal Introduction
- Projection: Seeing Our Darkness in Others
- Origins of The Shadow Self
- Enlightenment: The Shadow Formula
- If You Want to Save The World, Tend to Your Shadow Self
The “shadow” is a concept first coined by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that describes those aspects of the personality that we choose to reject and repress. For one reason or another, we all have parts of ourselves that we don’t like—or that we think society won’t like—so we push those parts down into our unconscious psyches. It is this collection ...
Seeing the shadow within ourselves is extremely difficult, so it’s rarely done—but we’re really goodat seeing undesirable shadow traits in others. Truth be told, we revel in it. We love calling out unsightly qualities in others—in fact, the entire celebrity gossip industry is built on this fundamental human tendency. Seeing in others what we won’t ...
Our society teaches us that certain behaviors, emotional patterns, sexual desires, lifestyle choices, etc. are inappropriate. These “inappropriate” qualities are usually those that disrupt the flow of a functioning society—even if that disruption means challenging people to accept things that make them uncomfortable. Anyone who is too challenging b...
Jung’s proposed solution to this schism is for the individual to undergo “shadow work.” What we repress never stays repressed, it lives on in the unconscious—and, despite what our egos would have us believe, the unconscious mind is the one really running the show. Shadow work, then, is the process of making the unconscious conscious. In doing so, w...
While shadow work is a rewarding way to cultivate a deep and intimate understanding of ourselves, and thus evolve as individuals, the truth is that the worldneeds us to embark on this journey sooner rather than later. The collective shadow houses society’s basest impulses: those of greed, hatred, and violence. If one person acting on these impulses...
Jan 24, 2024 · The Shadow archetype, as defined by Carl Jung, encapsulates the parts of ourselves that we may reject, disown, or simply don’t recognize. Rooted in both our personal and collective unconscious, the Shadow contains traits that we consciously oppose, often contrasting those presented in our Persona – the outward ‘mask’ we show to the world.
May 31, 2012 · The great Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Jung, named this hidden part of us the Shadow. The Shadow is an archetype—a universal motif or image built in to all human beings. You can no more get rid...
- Phil Stutz And Barry Michels
By Adrian Iliopoulos | 12 minute read | Don't miss my new BOOK. Get it HERE. Carl Jung and the Shadow – The Mechanics of Your Dark Side. Have you ever looked yourself in the mirror so deeply that the sheer notion of what you like to call self, dissipated in a vertigo of angst and abstraction? It is a strange feeling.
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Jan 17, 2024 · Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is renowned for his significant contributions to the field of psychology. Among his many concepts and theories, one that stands out...
Psychiatrist Carl Jung’s construct of the shadow, comprised of the denied aspects of the self (Jung 1959, p. 20), conceals within itself the golden key not only to understanding the agency by which wars and feuds of all kinds tend to start but the very solution to preventing their emergence in the first place.
