Carl Jung: On withdrawing projections
We are still certain we know what other people think or what their true character is.
We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves.
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.
Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they do this or that, they are wrong, and they must be fought against…
Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world.
He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day.
Terry Lectures, 1937
Psychology and Religion
Collected Works 11
Very difficult to find such a man if it happens we will be living in what we call the ” ideal world ” I think.
Oh trust me , these people are in the world ….they do exist !!!!
With all the bad in the world, there are some amazing human beings too !!!
I’m working on my projections now
And I hope I can become like Jung said
– “ someone doing their best to change the world by taking care of my own shadow “
I admire Jung – probably the greatest psychological mind that ever lived !
how do we know when we are actually projecting our shadow or anima unto another? as opposed to a projection that we think we are making when in fact there is none
If you consider that ubderstanding of this of the shadow and understanding how our projections shape your reality then i think it is a stage of enlitenment to see the world for what it is not how our projections hiding the shdaow wish ut to be