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Integrate the Shadow, Master Your Path
Jung explained that our shadow constitutes the parts of ourselves we reject or avoid looking at because these aspects don’t fit with the way we’d like to see ourselves. He explained that we each have in us the forces for the greatest good and also the greatest evil. We have the potential to commit the same horrible atrocities that we see in the wor
... See morefrom The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness: Insights from Depth Psychology by Jude Star
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.psychology- According to Carl Jung, The shadow self (or the dark side of the Self) is your animal nature that lives behind your social persona. This includes the usual suspects like our fear, anxieties, envy, lust but also positives like instinct, intuition, compassion, and spirituality. The less you know it and own it, the denser, deeper, and more unpredictab... See more
from Your Shadow Is Your Superpower by Andy Travis
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The shadow is a living part of the personality and therefore wants to live with it in some form. It cannot be argued out of existence or rationalized into harmlessness.
from Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Book 10) by C. G. Jung