Here it's important to acknowledge that every difficult thing in life—whether it's poverty, racism, sexism, or relationship, health, or creativity issues due to childhood wounds—all of these obviously are not solely individual inventions. None of us individually invented these “dark secret desires” for painful things in our lives, and none of us is individually, solely responsible for the fact that they exist, or that we experience them. There are things that go beyond the individual, that are part of the mass “collective shadow” (as Jung would put it).
