Jung on the Shadow: A moral problem
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, For the full context and source of this quotation, click on the link to go to the Jungian Times:
Jung on the Shadow: Part of human nature
Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse, and a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. The shadow is very much a part of human nature, and it is only at night that no shadows exist. “A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity” (1942) In CW…
Inviting the Demon
From the earliest teachings of the Buddha, the practitioner has been encouraged to go against the stream of conventionality, to look at everything in experience including that which one would rather avoid or ignore. The way which the Buddha discovered was based on opening to all, including the “shadow,” to see fearlessly what is there,…
Jung: Acceptance of the shadow side
In reality, the acceptance of the shadow side of human nature verges on the impossible. Consider for a moment what it means to grant the right of existence to what is unreasonable, senseless, and evil! Yet it is just this that the modern man insists upon. He wants to live with every side of himself-to…
Edward Whitmont on The Shadow
Zdzisław Beksiński The Shadow cannot be eliminated. It is the ever-present dark brother or sister. Whenever we fail to see where it stands, there is likely to be trouble afoot. For then it is certain to be standing behind us. he adequate question therefore never is: Have I a shadow problem? Have I negative…
Marie von Franz on The Shadow
The shadow is not the whole of the unconscious personality. It represents unknown or little-known attributes and qualities of the ego . . . aspects that mostly belong to the personal sphere and that could just as well be conscious. Marie-Louise von Franz, “The Realization of the Shadow in Dreams,” in Meeting the Shadow…
What Wikipedia says about the Shadow
n Jungian psychology, the shadow or “shadow aspect” is a part of the unconscious mind consisting of repressed weaknesses, shortcomings, and instincts. It is one of the three most recognizable archetypes, the others being the anima and animus and the persona. “Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied in the…
Cinderella as a Shadow figure
Cinderella as a Shadow Figure Cinderella is a shadow figure. She is ignored and neglected by her elder sisters. They go out into the world, but Cinderella is shut up indoors. This represents the contrast between the conscious ego (which relates to the outside world) and those parts of the unconscious that have not been…
Dealing with The Shadow in dreams
If you can locate these figures in your dreams, all the better. The point, according to Jung, is not to become or accept these figures nor to reject them, but to find your own unique and creative way to be with them or relate to them. Jung felt the dream not only *revealed* the Shadow…