Identity Quote by Christopher Perry

“[The figure of the Trickster] is the collective shadow.”

— C.G. Jung

“The trickster is an important archetype, a mischievous, sometimes malicious creature who survives the challenges of the world through deceit. Despite the damage he…

— John Connolly

Jung first gave us the term ‘shadow’ to refer to those parts of our personality that have been rejected out of fear, ignorance, shame,…

— Debbie Ford

“Jung was very conscious of the mysteriousness of the human personality and the difficulty of penetrating the outward appearance and discovering the real individual.”

— Christopher Bryant

“Jung also developed the idea of archetypes and the collective unconscious. He believed that far from being a mass of individual minds, humanity was…

— Rob Parnell

“I am inclined to disagree with Jung when he says the Shadow is the person that we’d rather not be. The Shadow is that…

— Chloe Thurlow

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them.…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“[...] and I said to myself: Aha. George used to have a way of coping." "When?" I said, confused. "You mean, when I was…

— Justin Evans

The Jungian therapist taught me the difference between the ego and the shadow. I realized I'd been so busy being a good girl that…

— Sue Grafton

“The Shadow Self is a personal aspect to each of us. It acts as a trixter-psychopomp, who if we listen carefully, can reveal to…

— Bishop Harber

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“various identity struggles... have also had a shadow side in the sense that they have encouraged us to think of ourselves more as determined…

— Grace Lee Boggs