Category: Ideas/Books/Philosophy
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My Jungian Shadow Self, the Remix

I was raised in the type of family where you did a number of things: 1. Got an education 2. Got some more education 3. Got a good job, then a better job, then an even better job, until you’d reached a ‘job pinnacle.’ 4. Work until you retire. Then work some more. (Mom, Dad,…
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The Shadow Self and Jung

The Shadow Self. It’s real, that’s for sure. I have this bizarre friendship with someone who I met many years ago — For as long as I’ve known him, he hasn’t worked what I’ve always considered a “real” job — A 9-5, at times soul-crushing cubicle manifestation that we, in the U.S, know as “jobs.” …