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Compensatory Factor in the Unconscious
“The ego-conscious personality is only a that is, whatever we are highly
part of the whole man, and its life does identified with, the exact opposite is
not yet represent his total life. … Since also true and will be building up in
everything living strives for wholeness, the unconscious in direct proportion
the inevitable one-sidedness of our to our conscious attitudes and beliefs.
conscious life is continually being These opposing characteristics and
corrected and compensated by the qualities he appropriately named “our
universal human being in us, whose goal shadow.” For like our physical shadow,
is the ultimate integration of conscious our psychological shadow is hidden
and unconscious, or better, the from our awareness. The Shadow, again,
assimilation of the ego to a wider is everything we refuse to consciously
personality.” — Carl Jung, Vol 8, Structure & acknowledge about ourselves.
Dynamics of the Psyche, paragraph 557
Whenever we become lopsided in our
Jung postulated that there is a view or overdo any part of our character,
compensatory factor in our psyche our unconscious will begin automatically
designed to compensate when we are compensating for us by taking the
out of balance with ourselves. This opposing view. This is nature’s way of
theory of opposites explains that keeping us in balance with ourselves.
whatever we believe about ourselves,
Jung describes it as the counterbalancing,
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