Owning Your Own Shadow
Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
Robert A. Johnson
Knowing the Self You Do Not Know
Robert A. Johnson explores our need to "own" our own shadow--the term Jung used to describe the dark, hidden aspect of the ego or persona. The popular Jungian author guides us through an exploration of the shadow: what it is, how it originates, how it is formed through the process of acculturation, and the havoc that it can wreak if not absorbed.
Some of che pure gold of our personality is relegated to the shadow because it can find no place in that great leveling process that is culture," writes Johnson. Curiously, people resist the noble aspects of their shadow more strenuously chan chey hide the dark sides.'
Johnson sees the "owning of one's shadow" as a religious process, a means by which wholeness is restored to the personality. Noting chat the original meaning of the word religion is to re-relate- to put back together again, to heal the wounds of separation-he emphasizes the absolute necessity of putting our fractured world back together again. This is accomplished by first coming to terms with the shadow, incorporating it, and finally balancing it wichin the conscious self.
ROBERT A. JOHNSON, a noted lecturer and Jungian analyst in private practice, studied at che Jung Institute in Switzerland and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India. He is the author of He, She, We, Inner Work, Ecstasy, Femininity Lost and Regained, and Transformation.
Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
Robert A. Johnson
Knowing the Self You Do Not Know
Robert A. Johnson explores our need to "own" our own shadow--the term Jung used to describe the dark, hidden aspect of the ego or persona. The popular Jungian author guides us through an exploration of the shadow: what it is, how it originates, how it is formed through the process of acculturation, and the havoc that it can wreak if not absorbed.
Some of che pure gold of our personality is relegated to the shadow because it can find no place in that great leveling process that is culture," writes Johnson. Curiously, people resist the noble aspects of their shadow more strenuously chan chey hide the dark sides.'
Johnson sees the "owning of one's shadow" as a religious process, a means by which wholeness is restored to the personality. Noting chat the original meaning of the word religion is to re-relate- to put back together again, to heal the wounds of separation-he emphasizes the absolute necessity of putting our fractured world back together again. This is accomplished by first coming to terms with the shadow, incorporating it, and finally balancing it wichin the conscious self.
ROBERT A. JOHNSON, a noted lecturer and Jungian analyst in private practice, studied at che Jung Institute in Switzerland and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India. He is the author of He, She, We, Inner Work, Ecstasy, Femininity Lost and Regained, and Transformation.
Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
Robert A. Johnson
Knowing the Self You Do Not Know
Robert A. Johnson explores our need to "own" our own shadow--the term Jung used to describe the dark, hidden aspect of the ego or persona. The popular Jungian author guides us through an exploration of the shadow: what it is, how it originates, how it is formed through the process of acculturation, and the havoc that it can wreak if not absorbed.
Some of che pure gold of our personality is relegated to the shadow because it can find no place in that great leveling process that is culture," writes Johnson. Curiously, people resist the noble aspects of their shadow more strenuously chan chey hide the dark sides.'
Johnson sees the "owning of one's shadow" as a religious process, a means by which wholeness is restored to the personality. Noting chat the original meaning of the word religion is to re-relate- to put back together again, to heal the wounds of separation-he emphasizes the absolute necessity of putting our fractured world back together again. This is accomplished by first coming to terms with the shadow, incorporating it, and finally balancing it wichin the conscious self.
ROBERT A. JOHNSON, a noted lecturer and Jungian analyst in private practice, studied at che Jung Institute in Switzerland and at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India. He is the author of He, She, We, Inner Work, Ecstasy, Femininity Lost and Regained, and Transformation.
