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Man and His Symbols,
Stuart Wilde • Sixth Sense: Including the Secrets of the Etheric Subtle Body
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)
As envisioned by May, the daimonic includes and incorporates Jung’s concepts of the shadow and Self, as well as the archetypes of anima and animus. While Jung differentiates the shadow from the Self, and the personal shadow from the collective and archetypal shadow, May makes no such distinctions. This recalls a recent caution by Marie-Louise von F
... See moreConnie Zweig • Meeting the Shadow
“If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us.”23
C. G. Jung • The Red Book
The language of the Red Book is in my view Jung’s most insightful, precisely because it is not conceptual.