Attributes you think of as “bad”—feelings of anger, jealousy, hatred, and inferiority—get relegated to your shadow and become unconscious. (People who tend to focus on their negative characteristics, conversely, may hide some of their typically “positive” feelings or qualities in their Shadow.) The Shadow represents everything we refuse to acknowledge about ourselves that nonetheless impacts the way we behave. Being blind to parts of ourselves means that there is often a difference between the person we think we are—or the person we would like to see ourselves as—and who we really are as we
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