Our primary focus will fall on the Shadow, one of Jung’s most foundational psychological concepts, both at the personal as well as the deeper collective level. He held that to encounter and accept our shadow, “the thing we have no wish to be” (CW 16, §470), is fundamental to the process of individuation, to becoming whole.
If the shadow, personal or collective, is not recognized and accepted, it acts out behind our back, so to speak; that despised quality that we reject as our own is unconsciously, and often destructively, projected onto the other. But if we risk the encounter we may find that the shadow is not just negative, but holds hidden sparks of creative potential that may energize new growth and provide avenues to more meaningful human relationships. Paradoxically, it is the shadow that brings the light. As Marie Louise von Franz so well put it, encountering the shadow carries, “a chance to bring light into the darkness of our modern world.”
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About the Speaker:
Judith Dowling is a Jungian analyst and graduate of ISAP Zürich. She resides in Victoria, B.C., Canada where she maintains a private practice. Before pursuing her vocation in analytical psychology, Judith was a singer and instructor of voice. She has lectured in Canada, Switzerland and the U.S. Her article, Lost Voices of the Feminine: The Song of Miriam Arises is published in the Spring, 2018 edition of the Jung Journal, Culture and Psyche.
Website: www.victoriajungiananalysis.com
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