Jung's Shadow Concept The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves

Introduction

Christopher Perry and Rupert Tower

Prologue: The Descent into the Hell of Self Knowledge: The Shadow in Context

Katerina Sarafidou

1: The Development of the Shadow in Childhood: Shadow Work (Maia's Story)

Rowena Mahmud

2: Gender dysphoria, Individuation and the Shadow

Robert Withers

3. Disease as the Shadow of the Body

Wendy Bratherton

4. On Ageing: Coming Home

Chris and Ewa Robertson

5. The Shadow in Literature: Daphne du Maurier's "The Scapegoat"

Rupert Tower

6. Whose Shadow is it Anyway? Jung and Opposites

Clare Landgrebe

7. The Shadow of Darkness, the Shadow of light: Perspectives on the Shadow through social dreaming

Laurie Slade

8. The Shadow of Whiteness

Helen Morgan

9. The Shadow in Politics

Emilija Kiehl

10. Shadow and Earth

Mary-Jayne Rust

11: "Existential threat" and large group anxiety

Coline Covington

12: The Impact of AI and IT in the 21st Century

Alison George

13: Fundamentalism, Terrorism and Mindlessness: The Shadow of Thinking

Malcolm Rushton

14: Imago Diaboli: The Devil and its manifestations in C.G. Jung;s Black Books and Liber Novus

Tomasso Priviero

15: Five Perspectives on Evil: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam

Nigel Wellings, Steve Bushell, Raj Balkaran, Sheikh Ahmed Haneef and Yoram Inspector.

16: Sexual Boundary Violation: Betrayal and the Shadow of Therapy

Christopher Perry

17: Bringing the Shadow towards Light: Approaches to assimilating the Shadow

Marilyn and David Mathew

Appendix: The Shadow by Toni Wolff

Katerina Sarafidou

Biography

Christopher Perry is a training analyst and supervisor of the Society of Analytical Psychology, of which he is also the former Director of Training. He is the author of Listen to the Voice Within: A Jungian Approach to Pastoral Care and several articles on analytical psychology and group analysis. He is interested in the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality. He lives in London.

Rupert Tower is a member of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He studied psychology, worked in the Arts, and was an applied social psychologist and director of an international qualitative cross-cultural research consultancy prior to becoming a Jungian analyst in mid-life. He has published articles on social psychology, market research, and Jung’s concept of the Shadow in organisations. He lives and works in Hampstead.

"At a time when the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Disease, Death – are rampaging around the world, the theme of this work is timely. The Introduction sets the tone as it features the un-concealing of the shadow of the two editors’ Christopher Perry and Rupert Tower – grandson of Daphne du Maurier. Perry’s own contribution is grounded in the solid work by Gabbard and Celenza on boundary violations that addresses those difficulties. There follow other practice-based clinical pieces and chapters on literature and esoterica. Interspersed with these are weighty entries on the hot topics of today, viz., climate change, gender dysphoria, the metaverse, and modern technology. Jung’s Shadow Concept: the Hidden Light and Darkness Within Ourselves investigates the darkest recesses of human existence animating one of Jung’s major contributions to psychology: the Shadow – light and dark."

Ann Casement, LP, Professor at the Oriental Academy of Analytical Psychology.

"A most timely reflection by a stellar group of Jungian authors and lay-people shedding light on numerous features of our shadow-rich psyches individual and collective."

Murray Stein editor of Jung on Evil.

"This is a wide ranging and immensely thoughtful work about that part of ourselves that we may not wish to see. Like Macbeth, we may all be ‘afraid to think’ about the Shadow, whether in ourselves or our communities. The contributors to this book have invited us, the reader, to take a compassionate yet resolute look at many different aspects of that complex concept. I believe it is a timely and important read."

Dr Gwen Adshead, 'The Devil You Know: Encounters in Forensic Psychiatry"