Your Shadow Is Your Superpower
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
... See moreHaruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2
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.
C. G. Jung • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Book 10)
However, what is less known is that we can also project buried talents and positive qualities onto others. Jung called this the ‘Golden Shadow,’ which contains the creative potential and greatness in ourselves that we are unable to see (except in other people), perhaps because we were shamed for these qualities or maybe because owning them would be... See more
Kirsten Powers • How I Tamed My Envy of Almost Everyone but Especially Elizabeth Gilbert
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 moreJude Star • The Paradox of Pursuing Happiness: Insights from Depth Psychology
The shadow: What is this curious dark element that follows us like a saurian tail and pursues us so relentlessly in our psychological world? What role does it occupy in the modern psyche? The persona is what we would like to be and how we wish to be seen by the world. It is our psychological clothing and it mediates between our true selves and our
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