JORDAN PETERSON ON JUNG’S SHADOW

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The first thing you have to understand with regards to trying to come to terms, with the conception of the shadow is to understand the idea of persona and persona is the you that you present.

 

When you want people to accept and like you, often like let’s say that you go to a party and you’re trying to impress the people, and you’re trying

to get them to like you and you’re you go along with everyone, so that they like you and then you go home and you’re bitterly resentful about the way that you were, put down at this party and that’s going, to make all sorts of aggressive.

 

I wish I could have said to make all sorts of aggressive and vengeful thoughts sort of flash through your imagination, well the first part of the problem is that you were too much persona, you sacrificed yourself in some sense out the party so that people would like you.

 

And in the second part you’re refusing to admit to the existence of those elements of you that would have actually protected you from doing that, so let’s say you go home and you’re all bitter and resentful and you have fantasies of revenge. I mean that reveals to you the shadow part of you that’s aggressive.

 

And the thing is, you actually need that because if you would have integrated that more successfully into your personality when you went to the party you wouldn’t have had let you, wouldn’t have had to let people put you down to get them to like, which says I’ll take anything that’s coming my way and a stance that’s more determined and assertive.

 

And if you manifest that properly, people aren’t going to mess with you to begin with, but you know, you may have already adopted a morality that says well I have to be likeable and I shouldn’t do anything, that causes any conflict and I shouldn’t ever you know, hurt anybody’s feelings.

 

So you’re just to present yourself as a punching bag and you think that

makes you a good person but it doesn’t, and there’s no integration of the shadow in that situation, so you see that at the end of the movie, when Simba Kruk climbs up the rock to take control of it all, the female lionesses bare their teeth and he Orr’s it’s like that aggressiveness is integrated into him and so resentment is a really good emotion for making contact with the shadow side, because if you’re resentful about something it basically reveals two things it either means that you’re immature and you should stop whining and get on with things: someone’s out this, often happens with

adolescents who are asks a by their mother to clean up the room, they are resentful about it. It’s like shut up and clean up your room you know it’s not that much to ask or so that can be a gateway into the observation of your own immaturity.

 

Or it’s possible that you’re resentful, because people really have been poking at you too much and taking and taking short chip shots at you and oppressing you, but what that; means is that you’ve got some things to say, that you haven’t been willing to say or don’t know how to say right.

 

You can’t stand up for yourself properly and in order to do that you have to grow some teeth and be willing to use them and again that’s something that might violate your morality because you might say “Well, I shouldn’t be able to bite people”.

 

And the thing is yes you should be able to bite people hard and if you’re able to bite them, then generally you don’t have to, but they need to know

that you can, because otherwise especially people who are badly socialized; they’ll just keep encroach on you and encroaching on you and

encroaching on you and encroaching on you.

 

Until you put up a wall like someone who’s really well put together, won’t do that, you know because they’re sophisticated but if you run into people who only have boundaries because other people impose on them and you will do it you’re going to be the bullied one in the office for example.

 

You’re not going to get a raise, people aren’t going to credit you, with your own work, other people are going to take credit for it, you know and you’re going to go home angry because you’re doing your best and you’re trying to get along with everyone.

 

And nothing ever goes your way. Well, it’s because you’re a pushover and you think; that’s good because you confuse, harmlessness with morality, it’s not right just because, you can’t do any damage, doesn’t mean

your moral just means, you don’t have the capability for mayhem and that makes you pushover.

 

I mean a moral human being is much different from the typical view, he

really thinks. You get that horrible side of yourself integrated, so it’s up there, where you can use it because otherwise you’re dangerous, you can’t say no to people and you’ll go along with the crowd and then if the crowd does something particularly pathological, which it’s liable to do, you won’t be able to resist it, you won’t have the strength of character and so then you’ll fall prey to the crowd pathology, again it’ll be because you’re too agreeable with a green. Oh with a shadow resentful side that the crowd and its murderous intent is going to act out.

 

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