24/06/2026
The Shadow is the repressed, unconscious part of the personality containing traits, desires, and instincts that a person rejects or hides. While often associated with negative or "dark" impulses, it also houses positive attributes like creativity and assertiveness. Ignoring it causes self-sabotage. Carl Jung believed in confrontating the shadows rather than destroying it.
Unacknowledged shadow traits are often projected onto others, causing us to judge or hate in them what we refuse to see in ourselves.