The shadow in the understanding of Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology, is all our feelings, desires, character traits that we refuse to accept in ourselves for fear of being rejected.
We ignore them and they continue to control us from the unconscious. But without a shadow, there is no light — Jung argued, only the recognition of this frightening part of the personality in ourselves makes us whole people. The American Jungian analyst Robert Johnson (author of the bestselling books We, He, She (Cogito Center, 2009) is convinced that the Shadow can be mastered, and as a prototype for solving an internal conflict, he offers the mandorla symbol, which means the combination of opposites. » Every person is able to create a mandorla through conscious inner work,” writes Robert Johnson.His book does not contain practical exercises and tips, but it helps us to feel what great potential we have in order to change ourselves.
Institute for Humanitarian Research, 96 p.