Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction Prologue: The Descent into the Hell of Self Knowledge: The Shadow in Context 1: The Development of the Shadow in Childhood: 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: 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, Judaism and Islam 16: Sexual Boundary Violation: Betrayal and the Shadow of Therapy 17: Bringing the Shadow towards Light: Approaches to assimilating the Shadow Appendix: The Shadow
