There are, in my view, two “shadows”: (1) the dark side of the ego, which is carefully hidden from itself and which the ego will not acknowledge unless forced to by life’s difficulties, and (2) that which has been repressed in us lest it interfere with our egocentricity and, however devilish it may seem, is basically connected to the Self. In a showdown God (Self] favors the shadow over the ego, for the shadow, with all of its dangerousness, is closer to the center and more genuine.*
