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    Shadow

    The Jungian term for the unconscious aspects of the personality that the ego does not identify with. The Shadow contains both negative qualities (impulses judged unacceptable and repressed) and positive qualities (capacities left undeveloped or projected onto others). Shadow integration — making the unconscious conscious — is among the most fundamental practices in Jungian psychology. In the 4th Tarot, shadow work is built into the system structurally: every reversed card meaning addresses a shadow dynamic of that card's upright energy.

    Related concepts

    dark side
    rejected self
    The Devil
    The Moon
    hidden aspects
    repressed desires
    darkness
    blind spots
    what we deny
    projection
    evil within

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