Carl Jung: “The shadow is a tight passage, a narrow door …”
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C.G. Jung: “Everyone carries a shadow….”
Alexander-Louis Laloir: Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, 1865 Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an…
Carl Jung: The shadow includes a demonic dynamism
William Blake: The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun Jung: On the demonic dynamism of the Shadow in mass movements… It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses and foibles, but of a positively demonic…
Jung defines his concept of the shadow
Carl Jung: On the Shadow I have tried, in this book, to elucidate and amplify the various aspects of the archetype which it is most important for modern man to understand— namely, the archetype of the self. By way of introduction, I described those concepts and archetypes which manifest themselves in the course…
Jung, on Emotions and the Shadow
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality…., for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of It involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge, and…
Jung and Yoda
The archetype of spirit in the shape of a man, hobgoblin, or animal always appears in a situation where insight, understanding, good advice, determination, planning, etc., are needed but cannot be mustered on one’s own resources. The archetype compensates this state of spiritual deficiency by contents designed to fill the gap. “The Phenomenology of…
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C.G. Jung: “The ‘fish’ was the name of the God who became a man.”
Jung talks about Pisces, The Fishes, and the Fish Above all it is the connections with the Age of the Fishes which are attested by the fish symbol, either contemporaneously with the gospels themselves (“fishers of men”, fishermen as the first disciples, miracle of loaves and fishes) or immediately afterwards in the post-apostolic…
C.G. Jung: “I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness … I myself am the enemy who must be loved.”
Image: Splendor Solis Emblem 8 Carl Jung on Self-Acceptance From Modern Man in Search of a Soul “The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life. That I feed the hungry, that I forgive an insult, that I love my…