To the same degree that the Positive Mother accepts and cherishes the child’s nature with all its weaknesses and inadequacies, the Negative Mother rejects it and demands that its insufficiencies be overcome. This occurs on a very collective level, however, so that it amounts to a rejection of all that is unique and individual in the child; or all the factors that do not live up to an image the mother may have of how her child should be. The consequence of such an experience is that the child must hide or repress his own uniqueness, and these qualities become incorporated into the shadow. Since
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