The shadow—a concept in Jungian psychology—represents the things present in ourselves that we disassociate from because we deem them bad, ugly, dark, or inadequate. The shadow is all the things we suppress, reject, or deny in ourselves—the things we would rather not be. And while it is not easy to see our own shadow clearly, we can see it very, very well in other people. In fact, the more we judge others, the more likely we are judging our own shadow (even though we usually don’t know it).
