The Jungian Shadow - Society of Analytical Psychology
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The Jungian Shadow - Society of Analytical Psychology
The negative Shadow is composed of our own unacceptable and disowned defects that we strongly condemn in others. What we are unconscious of in ourselves, we become emphatically conscious of in others. The positive Shadow is composed of the good qualities hidden in us that we strongly admire or envy in others. We consciously respect in them what we
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- The shadow is not limited to the functional stack . It includes any psychological content that is repressed, whether it relates to cognitive functions, emotions, or other personal traits.
- It represents the unconscious "dark side" of the psyche but is not inherently bad. It can contain valuable qualities that have been suppresse