Plenty Quote by Laura Dern

We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the…

— Lorraine Toussaint

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

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

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 is what people are hunting throughout the tale. Or else it can dog the hero, refusing to leave him alone. It's a…

— Marisha Pessl

Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individuals conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts,…

— Carl Jung

“To defend ourselves from this threat, and to sustain our peace of mind, we make use of a variety of ego-defence mechanisms, particularly repression,…

— Anthony Stevens

The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

— Connie Zweig

“[...] 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 shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort.

— Carl Jung

“Your Shadow is a dark omen, a powerful teacher that reveals to you the places in your life where you are energetically blocked. When…

— Mateo Sol

“The most demanding part of a Jungian analysis occurs when the analysand (the person undergoing analysis) begins to confront his own shadow. That this…

— Anthony Stevens