Carl Jung on the Shadow Archetype.

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There is now an exact science of the mind. It has demonstrated that the shadow is most definitely not part of the person. And what you state is true: individuation requires people to face AND DEFEAT those dark aspects.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It's not so much about defeating the shadow as facing the truth. Defeating it would be just another form of repression.

"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." - Gospel of Thomas

There's very little in Freud or Jung which wasn't known by the ancients.

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Hm... You do not understand. The exact science of the mind demonstrates, without any possible doubt whatsoever, that the shadow IS NOT PART of the individual. It is a foreign body.

Yes, repression is bad, and that's not how you DESTROY the "shadow". And destroying it leads one to become the Übermensch. There is no discussing this. It is fact.