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.
Introduction
Christopher Perry and Rupert Tower
Prologue: The Descent into the Hell of Self Knowledge: The Shadow in Context
Katerina Sarafidou
1: The Development of the Shadow in Childhood: Shadow Work (Maia’s Story)
Rowena Mahmud
2: Gender dysphoria, Individuation and the Shadow
Robert Withers
3. Disease as the Shadow of the Body
Wendy Bratherton
4. On Ageing: Coming Home
Chris and Ewa Robertson
5. The Shadow in Literature: Daphne du Maurier’s “The Scapegoat”
Rupert Tower
6. Whose Shadow is it Anyway? Jung and Opposites
Clare Landgrebe
7. The Shadow of Darkness, the Shadow of light: Perspectives on the Shadow through social dreaming
Laurie Slade
8. The Shadow of Whiteness
Helen Morgan
9. The Shadow in Politics
Emilija Kiehl
10. Shadow and Earth
Mary-Jayne Rust
11: “Existential threat” and large group anxiety
Coline Covington
12: The Impact of AI and IT in the 21st Century
Alison George
13: Fundamentalism, Terrorism and Mindlessness: The Shadow of Thinking
Malcolm Rushton
14: Imago Diaboli: The Devil and its manifestations in C.G. Jung;s Black Books and Liber Novus
Tomasso Priviero
15: Five Perspectives on Evil: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam
Nigel Wellings, Steve Bushell, Raj Balkaran, Sheikh Ahmed Haneef and Yoram Inspector.
16: Sexual Boundary Violation: Betrayal and the Shadow of Therapy
Christopher Perry
17: Bringing the Shadow towards Light: Approaches to assimilating the Shadow
Marilyn and David Mathew
Appendix: The Shadow by Toni Wolff
Katerina Sarafidou