The Shadow Knows
[“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