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It was Jennifer’s daughter, Amy, This dream is an example of how our
myself, her husband and a couple that shadow brings us important information
she was entertaining. Jennifer started that can help us heal our parental
doing exactly what she had accused imagos. Though her mother had already
her employee Susan of doing, and her died, that mother complex lived on
daughter and I looked at each other inside of her until she could relate to it.
and smiled. She saw us, and she got it. I also want to stress that this is all of us,
In that instant, she saw it herself and not just her. Jung defined a neurosis as
she stopped. ‘self-division.’ In Psychology and
Religion, East and West, par 497, he
Susan did exhibit some traits of said, “A psychoneurosis must be
braggadocio, but it was obnoxious only understood, ultimately, as the suffering
to Jennifer and no one else at the of a soul which has not discovered its
company. Jennifer would zero in on meaning.” Everyone is somewhat
just that aspect of Susan because it neurotic as so much of us is still
was part of her own shadow. The next unconscious regardless of how much
day the three of us went to lunch, and work you have done on yourself, there
Jennifer admitted to us that she got it is always more.
that Susan was a shadow figure inside
of her. She also now knew what it Whatever one does not live, lives
meant and why she drew this situation against us and will continue to run us
to her. Her mother had often belittled from below so our dreams can show us
her and made her feel she wasn’t what is next for our evolution. Paying
important. Unconsciously, she was attention to our dreams, writing them
compensating for this complex she down and making an effort to
had been carrying around her entire remember them is the best way to start
life. She told us it didn’t matter how a relationship with our unconscious. Go
successful she became. She knew she inside yourself and do some shadow
could never live up to her mother’s work. Start by asking questions like,
exaggerated expectations. She “Why am I so upset about this?” “What
couldn’t believe it when it got clear inside me behaves like this person I
and now I was able to explain it to her. cannot stand?” My favorite question to
ask is, “What do you want from me?
Why have I met this person right now. I
want to know.”
14- My Indigo Sun
