{"id":6753,"date":"2021-07-19T11:36:24","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T11:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungchicago.org\/blog\/?product=jones-west-beyond-red-book-mp4"},"modified":"2023-08-22T11:05:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:05:09","slug":"jones-west-beyond-red-book-mp4","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/jungchicago.org\/blog\/product\/jones-west-beyond-red-book-mp4\/","title":{"rendered":"Persona and Shadow in Political Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Topics: Active Imagination, CG Jung, Shadow, Society and Culture.<\/p>\n

Persona and Shadow in Political Life\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Jung\u2019s understanding of the Shadow helps us to make sense of the emotional dimensions of public life.\u00a0 As a child grows, the ego constructed by family, culture, and historical period requires that some parts of the psyche be suppressed, or \u201camputated,\u201d cut off from consciousness.\u00a0 In many cases, neutral or even positive potentials are cast off along with such impulses as rage, lust, and greed.\u00a0 A child whose family does not encourage musical ability may find her musical interest consigned to shadow; a girl may have ambition contaminated with the \u201cnegative\u201d potentials just as a boy may have his tender feelings cut off.\u00a0 These parts of the self instead form the shadow, where the shame or neglect of familial disapproval contaminates all the qualities contained there.\u00a0 Cut off from conscious awareness, these parts of the personality become constellated in projections, often onto those considered \u201cother.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this course, you will consider how Shadow projections complicate and contaminate public life, particularly in relation to issues of race and the environment.\u00a0 Shadow projections have burdened minorities with distorted cultural perceptions, and fearful projections onto the natural world have distanced us from a sense of kinship with other creatures and from the healing that nature can offer.<\/p>\n

Learning Objectives:<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

1) Have a better understanding of the archetypes of Persona and Shadow<\/p>\n

2) Gain insight into how these operate in public life<\/p>\n

3) Gain insight into your own encounters with Shadow<\/p>\n

4) Understand some approaches to healing the alienation caused by Shadow projections<\/p>\n

Suggested Reading:<\/span><\/u><\/b><\/p>\n

\u2022 C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Rinda West, Out of the Shadow:\u00a0 Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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