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[David Guyatt]

Thanks RK. The nature of the Shadow and shadow projection was covered at considerable length some 7 years ago in the Alchemy folder, where a number of associated factors were also discussed. For example, a thread titled The Archetype of the Shadow -- where were listed a number of Jung's statements about the Shadow confrontation:

If a man is endowed with an ethical sense and is convinced of the sanctity of ethical values, he is on the surest road to a conflict of duty. And although this looks desperately like a moral catastrophe, it alone makes possible a higher differentiation of ethics and a broadening of consciousness. A conflict of duty forces us to examine our conscience and thereby to discover the shadow.

Carl G. Jung - Collected Works vol 18 - Depth Psychology and a New Ethic - P.17

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. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.

Carl G. Jung Collected Works vol 9, Part II: Aion P.14

Despite all attempts at denial and obfuscation there is an unconscious factor, a black sun, which is responsible for the surprisingly common phenomenon of masculine split-mindedness, when the right hand mustn't know what the left is doing.

Carl G Jung, Collected Works vol 15 - Mysterium Coniunctionis: p331 and p332

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the Shadow of the other.

Carl G Jung - Collected Works vol 7: Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, P78

Other threads of possible interest are:

[URL="https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?11387-Active-Imagination-as-a-meditational-technique#.VuaWasdsyRs"]Active imagination as a meditational technique

[/URL][URL="https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?11664-Jung-s-commentary-on-The-Secret-of-the-Golden-Flower#.VuaWysdsyRs"]Jung's Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower
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On the Nature of the Shadow

[URL="https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?394-Jung-alchemy-and-the-quot-Shadow-quot#.VuaZEcdsyRs"]Jung, Alchemy and the Shadow
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[URL="https://deeppoliticsforum.com/forums/showthread.php?580-Very-rare-footage-of-von-Franz-on-quot-Projection-quot#.VuaX08dsyRs"]Very Rare Footage of Von Franz on Projection
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In the last link was included Youtube footage of an interview with Marie-Louise Von Franz - Jung's closest collaborator who became the leading Jungian after Jung's death (and incidentally a very close friend to my own Analyst, the late Dr, Anne Maguire), on the dangers of not withdrawing shadow projections. I'm posting the clip again below and note that the first 24 seconds are the telling ones: