![]() ![]() The Shadow is what we disown in ourselves. The Shadow represents those parts of us that lie outside our awareness. The Shadow is a term first used by psychotherapist and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung to describe everything that we believe and say that we are not. So best I start with a definition from the horse's mouth: That, first and foremost, is the question. Having a dark suspicion of these grim possibilities, man turns a blind eye to the shadow-side of human nature." But let these harmless creatures form a mass, and there emerges a raging monster and each individual is only one tiny cell in the monster's body, so that for better or worse he must accompany it on its bloody rampages and even assist it to the utmost. ![]() The individual seldom knows anything of this to him, as an individual, it is incredible that he should ever in any circumstances go beyond himself. "It is a frightening thought that man also has a shadow side to him, consisting not just of little weaknesses- and foibles, but of a positively demonic dynamism. ![]()
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