Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power (A method for getting what you want by getting off on what you don't)

by Carolyn Elliott

Freud called it “psychic masochism,” Jung recognized it as “the Shadow,” and Lacan called it jouissance—pleasure that's so intense we repress it.

As Jung emphasized: “Until you make the unconscious, conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate.” But Jung also pointed out: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”