Saturday, January 14, 2017

Shadow Self











"Shadow Self"
Created with collage elements, ink, acrylic, pine needles, leaves, plant based paper, oil pastels and encaustic wax.




"The Shadow Self is an archetype that forms part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas, instincts, impulses, weaknesses, desires, perversions and embarrassing fears. This archetype is often described as the darker side of the psyche, representing wildness, chaos and the unknown. Jung believed that these latent dispositions are present in all of us, in many instances forming a strong source of creative energy." (https://lonerwolf.com/shadow-self/)

"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected."
“Psychology and Religion” (1938). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.131
Carl Jung



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