Sublime

Whereas the ego weaves together the world, the shadow unravels the world. Whereas the ego acts as a catalyst of creation in the world, the shadow acts as a catalyst of destruction. Whereas the ego supports the status quo, the shadow is an agent of transformation.

A fragilidade nas nossas relações é fruto da inconsciência sobre a nossa própria sombra, pois o fato de não conseguir enxergá-la faz com que vejamos somente a sombra do outro.

Remember that Jung said when he heard the word mother he thought unreliable and when he heard father he thought powerless. Where did he come by these associations other than by having had a history in which these entities were loaded up with valences?

All of these layers of shadow projection might be imagined as nested dolls: The personal shadow is nested within the family shadow, which is nested within the cultural shadow, which is nested within the global shadow. As a result of these interrelated forces, biological factors, and family dynamics, we make our individual version of the Faustian ba

Grof's expanded cartography of psyche not only integrates the entire range of biographical, perinatal, and transpersonal domains that routinely emerge in deep self-exploration, but shows how they are connected. Most importantly, his clinical research confirms that there is a finite amount of negative material in the individual psyche.

De ahí, por ejemplo, que nos interesen también las construcciones iniciales, incluso desde las primeras entrevistas, donde se puede verificar, por ejemplo, la primera construcción, que es lo que llamamos el síntoma analítico, efecto de la transformación del síntoma bajo transferencia.

Podemos añadir que este relato tiene que incluir el elemento de la transferencia como revelador, justamente, de algo nuevo en el síntoma que de una forma paradójica va a dar la posibilidad de una emergencia de lo más real que está en juego.