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Susan did exhibit some traits of told us it didn’t matter how successful

braggadocio, but it was obnoxious she became. She knew she could never
only to Jennifer and no one else at the live up to her mother’s exaggerated
company. Jennifer would zero in on just expectations. She couldn’t believe it when

that aspect of Susan because it was part it got clear.
of her own shadow.

This is an example of how our Shadow is
The next day the three of us went to bringing us important information that
lunch, and Jennifer admitted to Amy can help us heal our parental imagos.

and I that she got it that Susan was a Though her mother had already died,
shadow figure inside of her. She also now that mother complex lived on inside of

knew what it meant and why she drew her until she could relate to it.
this situation to her. Her mother had
often belittled her and made her feel she I want to stress that this is all of us, not

wasn’t important. Unconsciously, she was just her. Every one of us is neurotic in
compensating for this complex she had some form or fashion. Jung defined a

been carrying around her entire life. She neurosis as ‘self-division.’ In Psychology

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