{"id":14732,"date":"2021-01-04T23:25:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2023-05-15T19:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T19:07:32","slug":"the-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14732","title":{"rendered":"The Shadow&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14736\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl Jung, a Swiss&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychiatrist\">psychiatrist<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychoanalyst\">psychoanalyst<\/a>&nbsp;who founded&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analytical_psychology\">analytical psychology<\/a> ,stated the shadow to be the unknown dark side of the personality.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shadow_(psychology)#cite_note-6\">[6]<\/a><\/sup>&nbsp;According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irrationality\">irrational<\/a>, is prone to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psychological_projection\">psychological projection<\/a>, in which a perceived personal inferiority is recognized as a perceived moral deficiency in someone else.&nbsp;These projections insulate and harm individuals by acting as a constantly thickening veil of illusion between the ego and the real worl<strong>d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Wikipedia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-1-copy.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-1-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/shadow-1-copy-768x512.jpg 768w\" 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height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/court-painter-shadow-1-pxm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/court-painter-shadow-1-pxm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/court-painter-shadow-1-pxm-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/court-painter-shadow-1-pxm-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Jung, a Swiss&nbsp;psychiatrist&nbsp;and&nbsp;psychoanalyst&nbsp;who founded&nbsp;analytical psychology ,stated the shadow to be the unknown dark side of the personality.[6]&nbsp;According to Jung, the shadow, in being instinctive and&nbsp;irrational, is prone to&nbsp;psychological projection, in which a perceived personal inferiority is recognized as a perceived moral deficiency in someone else.&nbsp;These projections insulate and harm individuals by acting as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14732\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 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