Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Book 10)

The shadow goes by many familiar names: the disowned self, the lower self, the dark twin or brother in bible and myth, the double, repressed self, alter ego, id. When we come face-to-face with our darker side, we use metaphors to describe these shadow encounters: meeting our demons, wrestling with the devil, descent to the underworld, dark night of

“integration of the shadow” is “a Jungian term that identifies that we all have shadow material (aggression, violence, nonconsensual fantasies, etc.). Disowning these parts of ourselves is not an effective way to deal with them, as what is disowned or ignored tends to grow (and often grow unconsciously).

The self pushes one to the experience and expression of one's own uniqueness; to this end it must order the archetypal world. The archetypes are collective forces, and the images that they produce are universal. An individual might simply follow these images, and, thereby, have numinous experiences. Yet he or she would never create the manifest sel

Jung and his successors have found that on the level of the deep unconscious the psyche of every person is grounded in what Jung called the “collective unconscious,” made up of instinctual patterns and energy configurations probably inherited genetically throughout the generations of our species. These archetypes provide the very foundations of our