Pdfslide.net the Realization of the Shadow by Marie Louise Von Franz

Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive … the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive. … The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and beco

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

L’obiettivo del lavoro di analisi è quello che Jung chiama processo di individuazione, cioè il riconoscimento e l’accettazione dell’Ombra. Ciò che ci appare oscuro e minaccioso in realtà fa parte di noi. Se lo accettiamo ci definisce, in qualche maniera ci dà forma. Per Jung solo l’Ombra rifiutata e occultata è davvero minacciosa, pericolosa per l’

For Jung, growth happens when we recover disowned shadow elements of our being.