Everyone has a shadow side. You are not the exception.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'
Everyone has a shadow side. You are not the exception.
Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'
What it means
Discovering your own dark side can make you swing into self-contempt. Jung's correction: everyone has one. Seeing it is a step forward, not a reason for despair.
The source
"Everyone has a shadow side. You are not the exception." Carl Jung said it in Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'. Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
"Hence there are some who take the newly-won insight very much to heart, too much so in fact, forgetting that they are not unique in having a shadow side."H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'. Text read at archive.org.
Who said it
Carl Jung (1875–1961). Swiss psychiatrist who broke with Freud and founded analytical psychology. He mapped the persona, the shadow, the collective unconscious and the lifelong work of becoming yourself, which he called individuation. Our lines come only from his writings published before 1931, in our own translations from the German or in English translations of the time.
Questions
- What does "Everyone has a shadow side. You are not the exception." mean?
- Discovering your own dark side can make you swing into self-contempt. Jung's correction: everyone has one. Seeing it is a step forward, not a reason for despair.
- Who said "Everyone has a shadow side. You are not the exception."?
- Carl Jung (1875–1961). Source: Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious'.
- What is the original wording?
- Hence there are some who take the newly-won insight very much to heart, too much so in fact, forgetting that they are not unique in having a shadow side (H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). Translated by H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928.
- Is "Everyone has a shadow side. You are not the exception." on a shirt?
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"Everyone has a shadow side. You are not the exception." (Carl Jung, Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. II 'Phenomena Resulting from the Assimilation of the Unconscious', trans. H. G. and C. F. Baynes, 1928). https://spartansurfers.com/quotes/everyone-has-a-shadow-side-you-are-not
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More from Carl Jung
- Your worst enemy lives inside your own chest.Two Essays (1928), I, ch. III 'The Other Point of View: The Will to Power'
- Only what is truly yourself has the power to heal.Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. IV 'The Attempt to Free the Individuality from the Collective Psyche'
- Trade yourself for a mask and you will pay for it.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- You and your job are two different things.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'
- The persona is only a mask. At bottom, it is not real.Two Essays (1928), II, Part I, ch. III 'The Persona as a Part of the Collective Psyche'
- Some people come to believe they are their public face.Two Essays (1928), II, Part II, ch. II 'Anima and Animus'