Personality's Shadow Self
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A Personality's Shadow Self is an unconscious belief system that ...
- AKA: Personal Shadow Self.
- Context:
- It can our unknown, dark side — made up of the Primitive, Negative, Socially Depreciated Human Emotions (such as sexuality, striving for power, selfishness, greed, envy, jealousy, and anger).
- It can personify everything that we fear,
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Pretend Self.
- a Super-Ego.
- See: Jungian Psychology, Carl Jung, Psychology Today, Unconscious Mind, Personality, Self-Esteem, Freudian, Irrationality, Psychological Projection, Identity Crisis.
References
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_(psychology) Retrieved:2016-12-23.
- In Jungian psychology, "shadow" or "shadow aspect" may refer to (1) an unconscious aspect of the personality which the conscious ego does not identify in itself. Because one tends to reject or remain ignorant of the least desirable aspects of one's personality, the shadow is largely negative, or (2) the entirety of the unconscious, i.e., everything of which a person is not fully conscious. There are, however, positive aspects which may also remain hidden in one's shadow (especially in people with low self-esteem). [1] Contrary to a Freudian definition of shadow, therefore, the Jungian shadow can include everything outside the light of consciousness, and may be positive or negative. "Everyone carries a shadow," Jung wrote, "and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is." [2] It may be (in part) one's link to more primitive animal instincts, [3] which are superseded during early childhood by the conscious mind. Carl Jung stated the shadow to be the unknown dark side of the personality. [4] [5] According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to psychological projection, in which a perceived personal inferiority is recognised as a perceived moral deficiency in someone else. Jung writes that if these projections remain hidden, "The projection-making factor (the Shadow archetype) then has a free hand and can realize its object-- if it has one--or bring about some other situation characteristic of its power." [6] These projections insulate and harm individuals by acting as a constantly thickening veil of illusion between the ego and the real world. From one perspective, 'the shadow...is roughly equivalent to the whole of the Freudian unconscious'; [7] and Jung himself asserted that 'the result of the Freudian method of elucidation is a minute elaboration of man's shadow-side unexampled in any previous age'. [8] Jung also believed that "in spite of its function as a reservoir for human darkness — or perhaps because of this — the shadow is the seat of creativity"; [9] so that for some, it may be, 'the dark side of his being, his sinister shadow...represents the true spirit of life as against the arid scholar.' [10]
- ↑ Young-Eisendrath, P. and Dawson, T. (1997). The Cambridge Companion to Jung., Cambridge University Press, p. 319
- ↑ Jung, C.G. (1938). “Psychology and Religion." In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.131
- ↑ Jung, C.G. (1952). “Answer to Job." In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.12
- ↑ S. A. Diamond - article published April 20, 2012 by Psychology Today [Retrieved 2015-11-01]
- ↑ Dr G. Wyn Roberts, Dr A. Machon - Appreciative Healthcare Practice: A guide to compassionate, person-centred care (c.f. p.71) published by M&K Update Ltd, 8 Jul 2015 ISBN 1907830936 [Retrieved 2015-11-01]
- ↑ Jung, C.G. (1951). “Phenomenology of the Self" In The Portable Jung. P.147
- ↑ Anthony Stevens, On Jung (London 1990) p. 43
- ↑ C. G. Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy (London 1993) p. 63
- ↑ Kaufman, C. Three-Dimensional Villains: Finding Your Character's Shadow [1]
- ↑ C. G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (London 1983) p. 262
2016
- https://hbr.org/2016/12/make-peace-with-your-unlived-life
- QUOTE: The idea of a “true self” and a “false” or “shadow” self has long preoccupied psychologists. For example, Carl Jung introduced the notion of the shadow side of our personality. He viewed “the shadow” as our unknown, dark side — made up of the primitive, negative, socially depreciated human emotions such as sexuality, striving for power, selfishness, greed, envy, jealousy, and anger. But although the shadow personifies everything that we fear, and therefore refuse to acknowledge, it remains a part of us. Jung believed that unless we come to terms with our shadow side, we are condemned to become its unwitting victim.