![]() This is perhaps why the General Index to his collected works contains over two pages of references to the shadow. He saw quite clearly that failure to recognise, acknowledge and deal with shadow elements is often the root of problems between individuals and within groups and organisations it is also what fuels prejudice between minority groups or countries and can spark off anything between an interpersonal row and a major war. Jung had a deep interest in the shadow – its form and content – and in the process of assimilating “the thing a person has no wish to be”. The ego, which is primarily body-based and may be understood as the executive part of the personality, stands alongside the shadow, and these two are to do with our identity. Two of these, the persona and the anima/animus, are relational the persona relates to the external world, and the anima/animus to the internal world. ![]() ![]() In Jung’s model of the psyche, there are various personified structures that interact with one another in our inner world. ![]()
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