The shadow self – The shadow is the unknown dark side of the personality. It refers to the portion of our psyche that we want to know that we are not ( Ex-The primitive, negative, socially or religiously depreciated human emotions and impulses like sexual lust, power strivings, selfishness, greed, envy, anger ), but a part of us fears that we are. It may be positive or negative. In short, the shadow is the “dark side” of the personality. Whatever we deem evil, inferior or unacceptable and deny in ourselves becomes part of the shadow.
Understanding one’s shadow can be helpful because there may be a lot of defensive behaviour due to shadow self. According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and irrational, is prone to psychological projection, in which a perceived personal inferiority is recognized as a perceived moral deficiency .
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