The Shadow Knows

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?

The Shadow knows!” 

1930’s radio show


[“The Shadow” radio show came out contemporaneously when Jung was writing about the shadow, and at the same time the Nazi’s were coming to power in Germany. Hmm.]

“Everyone carries a shadow…”

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…

But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected, and is liable to burst forth suddenly in a moment of unawareness.

At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions..

Psychology and Religion: West and East

CW 11

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