The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personalit…

Carl Jung
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The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. ✨ Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1973). The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: pt. 1. The archetypes and the collective unconscious. pt. 2. Aion, researches into the phenomenology of the self
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