{"id":1340,"date":"2022-05-05T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T06:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damianruiz.eu\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T11:39:30","slug":"the-shadow-and-the-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/damianruiz.eu\/en\/the-shadow-and-the-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"The shadow and the facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

The “shadow”, in Jung, represents those unconscious aspects, in many cases latent, close to consciousness and which, if not progressively integrated, through the knowledge provided by analysis (psychoanalysis) can condition our existence through actions, erroneous projections or elements that escape us and which sometimes intervene in a substantial way in relevant circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n

But not everything is “shadow”. Sometimes they are facts.<\/span><\/p>\n

To explain, Freud was once asked at a public lecture whether cigars, something he frequented with a certain passion, could be considered “a phallic object”, to which he replied: “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”.
\n<\/span>This phrase, uttered by the father of psychoanalytic theory, is of considerable importance because of the strong connection to reality it represents.<\/span><\/p>\n

And that, in my opinion, is the case with the concept of “shadow”.
\n<\/span>The shadow can be used for everything: projection, displacement, resistance, etc. And always \u00e0 la carte. When a situation is confronted, for example between patient and analyst, the latter can conceive such an unconscious instance as a factor to inhibit or weaken the thesis that the former defends. “You are projecting”, magic words which flatly refute any possibility that the analysand might be right.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n