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ourselves up for an US against THEM The natural gradient in the psyche is
dichotomy. Unbeknownst to us, what towards wholeness and consciousness.
we are doing is throwing down into our In order to get our attention when we are
own unconscious all the parts of us that becoming lop-sided in any characteristic
we, or anyone who has authority over or trait, our shadow is going to act out
us, decide are bad. The problem is rules compulsively behind our own back. Have
for acceptability are arbitrary as they you ever said something and then asked
differ from family to family and even yourself, “Did I really say that? What got
from culture to culture. Although ego into me?” We can then feel humiliated
and shadow are usually in stark contrast and embarrassed because we sounded
to each other, it’s good to remember like an irate teenager. Compulsion is a
that our shadow is not necessarily evil, psychological phenomenon of the life
but only perceived this way by our experience. It feels like we are out of
parents, our environment, our teachers, control, and we are. A week or two will
any authority figures we had growing go by and we’ll forget what happened
up — even our peers, therefore it was for a time, but, like anything repressed
repressed. And again, shadow is not or denied, the same behavior will be
about our negative characteristics. We triggered again and again because it wants
all know only too well our faults, but to be known. Our shadow will startle
faults do not constitute our shadow. Our us and embarrass us even if we said to
shadow is completely unconscious and ourselves, “I will never do that again.” In
hidden from our awareness. his book The Undiscovered Self, Jung says,
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