/lit/ - Literature

>I don't get it, why is it a necessity to integrate the shadow?
To become whole, you have to integrate that which you are missing.

>>22090448
Read Aion. Jung refutes the entire notion of privatio boni.

>>22090777
Checked, but Peterson is kind of a retard when it comes to many of his interpretations of Jung. The shadow is not a sadistic monster or whatnot, because the shadow is instead the accumulation of the repressed feelings and desires that the ego either deems to be immoral due to the conditioning it has been subject to by contemporary society or because it seems to be too arduous of a challenge; the shadow is the unreconciled opposite of the ego, which the ego must integrated to actualise itself into the Self. Hence, it represses these feelings or desires because they cause a great deal of “unnecessary” anxiety, disregarding the notion that the anxiety is an indication that something is wrong with how the ego is conducting itself either mentally or physically.