Jungian Psychology Series: The Shadow
The shadow is the term developed by Carl Jung to describe the rejected and disowned aspects of one’s personality.
Posts related to the psyche.
The shadow is the term developed by Carl Jung to describe the rejected and disowned aspects of one’s personality.
The ego is your conscious mind, or conscious identity. It is symbolized in dreams by the person of the dreamer or the vehicle that the dreamer is in. By analyzing your dreams you learn more about your conscious attitudes towards your deeper self (the unconscious) and outer life.
There is a song I learned as I child called “The Magic Penny.” The song goes “love is like a magic penny. Hold it tight and you don’t have any, but lend it, spend it and you’ll have so many, they’ll roll all over the floor.” The Magic Penny conveys a simple truth which applies…
A woman dreamed: “My close friend and I are standing on a river bank watching her husband water ski. He is having fun going back and forth, waving to us and generally showing off. We are alarmed, however, and try to signal to him that there are some sharks closely trailing him, eager for a…