Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

This insightful volume is designed as a series of invitations towards living attentiveness, examining how we all make the “other”, through “projection” (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), our enemy with whom we prefer not to dialogue. All of us are faced daily with individual and collective manifestations of the Shadow – all that we fear, despise and makes us feel ashamed. Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow, emerging as it did from his personal confrontation with the realms of his unconscious self, is one of the most important contributions he made to the understanding of humanity and to depth psychology, that realm where the focus is on unconscious processes. The contributors to this book reframe his concept in the context of contemporary Jungian thinking, exploring how the Shadow develops in an individual’s infancy and adolescence, and its culmination, where collective manifestations of the Shadow are addressed. The book offers a voyage through a series of fundamental Shadow concepts and themes including couples relationships, disease, organizations, Evil, fundamentalism, ecology and boundary violation before ending with a chapter designed to help us integrate the Shadow and hold contra-positions with patience and a tilt towards mutual understanding, rather than being locked in polarities. This fascinating new book will be of considerableinterest to the general public,Jungian analysts, trainees, scholars and therapists both in training and practice with an interest in the inner world.

Introduction Christopher Perry and Rupert Tower Prologue: The Descent into the Hell of Self Knowledge: The Shadow in Context Katerina Sarafidou 1: The Development of the Shadow in Childhood: Shadow Work (Maia's Story) Rowena Mahmud 2: Gender dysphoria, Individuation and the Shadow Robert Withers 3. Disease as the Shadow of the Body Wendy Bratherton 4. On Ageing: Coming Home Chris and Ewa Robertson 5. The Shadow in Literature: Daphne du Maurier's "The Scapegoat" Rupert Tower 6. Whose Shadow is it Anyway? Jung and Opposites Clare Landgrebe 7. The Shadow of Darkness, the Shadow of light: Perspectives on the Shadow through social dreaming Laurie Slade 8. The Shadow of Whiteness Helen Morgan 9.The Shadowin Politics Emilija Kiehl 10. Shadow and Earth Mary-Jayne Rust 11: "Existential threat" and large group anxiety Coline Covington 12: The Impact of AI and IT in the 21st Century Alison George 13: Fundamentalism, Terrorism and Mindlessness: The Shadow of Thinking Malcolm Rushton 14: Imago Diaboli: The Devil and its manifestations in C.G. Jung;s Black Books and Liber Novus Tomasso Priviero 15: Five Perspectives on Evil: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam Nigel Wellings, Steve Bushell, Raj Balkaran, Sheikh Ahmed Haneef and Yoram Inspector. 16: Sexual Boundary Violation: Betrayal and the Shadow of Therapy Christopher Perry 17: Bringing the Shadow towards Light: Approaches to assimilating the Shadow Marilyn and David Mathew Appendix: The Shadow by Toni Wolff Katerina Sarafidou

Christopher Perry is a training analyst and supervisor of the Society of Analytical Psychology, of which he is also the former Director of Training. He is the author of Listen to the Voice Within: A Jungian Approach to Pastoral Care and several articles on analytical psychology and group analysis. He is interested in the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality. He lives in London. Rupert Tower is a member of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He studied psychology, worked in the Arts, and was an applied social psychologist and director of an international qualitative cross-cultural research consultancy prior to becoming a Jungian analyst in mid-life. He has published articles on social psychology, market research, and Jung’s concept of the Shadow in organisations. He lives and works in Hampstead.