Jung's Shadow Concept

The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

Christopher Perry, Rupert Tower, Christopher Perry, Rupert Tower

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032187020
• eBook ISBN: 9781000876642
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Movements in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness, examining how we all make the "other", through "projection" (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue.

All of us are faced daily with individual and collective manifestations of the Shadow – all that we fear, despise and makes us feel ashamed. Carl Jung's concept of the Shadow, emerging as it did from his personal confrontation with the realms of his unconscious self, is one of the most important contributions he made to the understanding of humanity and to depth psychology, that realm where the focus is on unconscious processes. The contributors to this book reframe his concept in the context of contemporary Jungian thinking, exploring how the Shadow develops in an individual's infancy and adolescence, and its culmination, where collective manifestations of the Shadow are addressed. The book offers a voyage through a series of fundamental Shadow concepts and themes including couples relationships, disease, organizations, Evil, fundamentalism, ecology and boundary violation before ending with a chapter designed to help us integrate the Shadow and hold contra-positions with patience and a tilt towards mutual understanding, rather than being locked in polarities.

This fascinating new book will be of considerable interest to the general public, Jungian analysts, trainees, scholars and therapists both in training and practice with an interest in the inner world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Acknowledgements – Permission Credits
• A Note on the Paperback Cover Image
• Introduction
• The Descent into the Hell of Self-knowledge: The Shadow in Context
• 1 The Development of the Shadow in Childhood and Adolescence: Shadow Work: Maia's Story
• 2 Gender Dysphoria, Individuation and the Shadow
• 3 Disease as the Shadow of the Body
• 4 On Ageing: Coming Home
• 5 The Shadow in Literature: Daphne du Maurier's “The Scapegoat”
• 6 Whose Shadow is it Anyway?: Jung and Opposites
• 7 The Shadow of Darkness, the Shadow of Light: Perspectives on the Shadow Through Social Dreaming
• 8 The Shadow of Whiteness
• 9 The Shadow in Politics
• 10 Shadow and Earth: Eco-Psychology and the Future of the Planet
• 11 “Existential Threat” and Large Group Anxiety
• 12 The Impact of AI and IT in the 21st Century
• 13 Fundamentalism, Terrorism, and Mindlessness: The Shadow of Thinking
• 14 Imago Diaboli: The Devil and Its Manifestations in C. G. Jung's Black Books and Liber Novus
• 15 Five Perspectives on Evil: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism
• 16 Sexual Boundary Violation: Betrayal and the Shadow of Therapy
• 17 Bringing the Shadow Towards Light: Approaches to Assimilating the Shadow
• Appendix: Writings on the Shadow by Toni Wolff
• Name Index
• Subject Index