Psychological
What if the thing you hate about yourself is running your life?
Every trait you've been taught to suppress, every impulse you swallow, every quality you pretend doesn't exist. Jung gave it a name: the shadow. It's not gone. It's just operating without your permission.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.— Carl Jung
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The thinker
Founder of Analytical Psychology
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist who developed analytical psychology, introducing concepts like the shadow, archetypes, and the collective unconscious.
Based on Carl Jung and the Shadow — Academy of Ideas, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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