As Erich Neumann, a student of Jung’s, explained: It is not that we want to become “evil” in the sense of turning criminal or committing heinous acts against our fellow man, but “evil” in the sense of detaching ourselves from what we see as the flaws our moral code so we can reconnect with the parts of our personality we lost in our shadow long ago.
#THE SHADOW YOU CODE#
In response to this realization, we may feel the need to behave in ways less in line with the dominant moral code of our day, ways considered “evil” by social morality. In undergoing such an examination, we are likely to discover how much hypocrisy, complacency, and fear underlies many of the moral injunctions we obey, and furthermore, that ridicule and moral condemnation are often driven by envy. In the attempt to protect our personality, this recognition can motivate us to take a stance with Nietzsche “beyond good and evil”, and to examine the morality we have been socialized into. In becoming aware of the shadow, first as an intellectual concept, and then via introspection and reflection we seek to discover what our own personal shadow consists of, we awaken to a moral conflict, to the troubling idea that a portion of our personality is at odds with contemporary morality and with what our family, peers, and society judge as good and evil. “…this integration …leads to disobedience and disgust, but also to self-reliance, without which individuation is unthinkable.” Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion Integration of the shadow leads to self-reliance. Greater character becomes clear when we understand Jung’s assertion that the That our dark side consists of a wickedness we need to overcome? But theĬonnection between the integration of our shadow and the development of a To begin, we must examine how our “dark, hitherto, unacceptable side”Ĭan be a key to unlock our potential. “The shadow, when it is realized, is the source of renewal…When there is an impasse, and sterile time in our lives, despite an adequate ego development – we must look to the dark, hitherto unacceptable side which has been at our conscious disposal.” Edward Whitmont, Meeting the Shadow
#THE SHADOW YOU HOW TO#
In this video, we are going to explore how to integrate our shadow, and analyze the connection between our shadow and greatness of self.
As a result of repressing elements of our personality into our shadow we were made tame, obedient, predictable – perhaps likeable – but at the cost of our vitality and psychological wholeness. Perhaps our assertiveness was frowned upon, our early attempts at creativity ridiculed, or maybe our competitiveness or ambition was felt by those close to us to be a threat. What is it that most people deny and repress into their shadow? All that is deemed bad or immoral by society, all that is frowned upon by our family or peers, all the traits that when initially expressed were ridiculed, shunned, or met with punishment.īut given that no moral code is perfect and no family or peer group is ideal, in adapting to the social world we not only repressed destructive elements of our personality such as our unbridled sexuality, anger and untamed animal impulses, but we also repressed positive and life promoting characteristics. The path to a greater character, to a more effectual approach to life, lies in integrating those elements of our psyche that for too long have been repressed and denied – the elements that make up what Jung called our unconscious shadow side. The shadow is very much a part of human nature, and it is only at night that no shadows exist.” Carl Jung, Psychology and ReligionĬarl Jung stressed that an individual’s proper goal is wholeness, not perfection. “Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse, and a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed. The following is a transcript of this video.
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