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The shadows of self6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. We’ll explore both of these aspects of our personality to help give context to both - we’ll see the dangers that lie in the shadow in us, and we'll see how we can overcome them, accept the shadow and use it as a powerful tool to help us live better and more constructive lives. Today we’ll be exploring both the nature of the person we want to be, and the nature of our shadow, the form taken by the aspects of our nature that we dislike, the parts of ourselves we’re ashamed of, the primal and impulsive parts and that we hide from ourselves and those around us. ![]() The story of Jekyll and Hyde is a great illustration of the ego and the shadow in Jungian psychology. Jekyll knows that the Hyde in him contains urges that are not befitting the man he wants himself to be, and the internal conflict and repression of Hyde feeds this darker side until it becomes all encompassing. ![]() The good man Henry Jekyll wants himself to be, and the evil, impulsive and cruel Edward Hyde. In the book Dr Jekyll, a large, well made man, battles between the dual internal personalities of good and evil. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella from 1886 written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. ![]()
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