0:14-0:19 I will begin this video by referencing something
I brought up at the end of the last video.
0:20-0:25 The concept of archetypes.
In Jung's mind an archetype is a universal pattern to human experiance.
0:26-0:31 For example, every human being has a biological
mother and father.
0:32-0:35 That is a universal pattern, an archetype
for human beings.
0:36-0:41 When it comes to caring for a child, depending
on how successful the mother and father are
0:42-0:47 the closer they come to representing the archetypical,
or ideal, mother and father.
0:48-0:53 Now these archetypes are obviously ones that
occur externally.
What about ones that occur internally?
0:54-0:59 That will be the focus of the next three chapters.
The most accessible of the inner archetypes is
1:00-1:05 the shadow.
It is easy to access once one accepts that human beings are imperfect
1:06-1:08 and can have negative qualities.
1:09-1:13 All of those contents about ones self that
one doesn't like, fall into the shadow.
1:14-1:18 The shadow occupies the unconscious realm
of our pyche.
1:19-1:24 While not all unconscious contents are shadow
contents, like positive memories that one might recall,
1:25-1:30 most remain unconscious because they remain
difficult to intergrate into ones conscious being.
1:31-1:36 I breifly referenced something in the last
video that I said would be left for chapter four
1:37-1:41 and I still intend to leave the majority of
that discussion for chapter four but it is relevant to bring up again.
1:42-1:49 In order for the ego to grow in consciousness,
it needs to intergrate unconscious contents and bring them under its control.
1:50-1:55 This intergration is called the confrontation
with the shadow and in successful cases
1:56-2:01 a human being will recognize a certain negative
quality about themselves
2:02-2:07 and either destroy that quality or control
it so that the quality does not negativly impact thier lives.
2:08-2:11 In unsuccessful cases, two things might happen.
2:12-2:19 Like I said in regards to complexes in the
last video, the shadow has the potential to subsume the ego and bring the ego under its
control.
2:20-2:24 The person then becomes an avatar for the
shadow and will do its evil bidding.
2:25-2:29 A good example of the shadow possesing the
ego, occurs in the film "Apocalypse Now".
2:30-2:36 The character of Kernal Kurtz, the main antagonist
of the film, goes from being a decorated officer in the US army,
2:37-2:40 to a man who would decapitate those who would
displease him.
2:41-2:47 For more information on how Kernal Kurtz exemplifies
the shadow concept, please refer to my two part series on "Apocalypse Now".
2:48-2:50 Which I will link in the description box.
2:51-2:56 Now assimilation of the ego to the shadow
is one thing that could happen during the confrontation with the shadow.
2:57-3:05 If the ego isn't assimilated right away, or
only partially, the outside worlds will mirror ones shadow.
3:06-3:11 Now what does this mean?
Well imangine a person that doesn't succeed well in social situations.
3:12-3:16 That inability to socialize would be a negative
quality.
3:17-3:19 One that the person tries to surpress inside
thier shadow.
3:20-3:25 The natural consequences of this surpression,
will be its projection onto ones environment.
3:26-3:31 Every time that socially akward person sees
people engaged in conversation
3:32-3:36 they will become resentful and bitter.
They will wonder why the world is so malevolent.
3:37-3:40 Why people are so terrible and unaccepting
of them.
3:41-3:47 If they were to overcome this pittiful state,
they might begin to ask how they might be contributing to the problem.
3:48-3:52 How thier lack of personality or empathy might
cause people to shy away.
3:53-3:58 Until this happens however, the shadow will
continue its projections inevitably.
3:59-4:05 Confrontations with the shadow continue throughout
ones life.
These confrontations range from very simply moral lessons,
4:06-4:10 to ones that are impossibly bleak.
4:11-4:15 Despite that unfortunate psychological fact,
confrontations with the shadow are necessary.
4:16-4:22 There needs to be an unconscious realm to
give dimension to the conscious realm, otherwise niether can exist.
4:23-4:30 Its like if light were to exist without darkness,
or darkness without light.
It is an impossibility.
4:31-4:39 Jung theorized that in order for the ego to
grow to its highest peak, the Jungian self, one must confront all of the contents of ones
shadow.
4:40-4:45 Only then can ones psychological and physical
well being achieve perfect balance of the opposites,
4:46-4:49 conscious and unconscious, good and evil,
ect.
4:50-4:55 Now in regards to what Jordan Peterson might
find terrifying about this concept, I believe that it is self edvident.
4:56-5:01 The notion that there must always be a negative
shadow side to every aspect of life,
5:02-5:10 that there has to be a greater darkness to
permit greater light and that we have to encounter it at some point,
5:11-5:16 is nightmarish.
at some point we will all have to be like Winston Smith in "1984",
5:17-5:19 facing the possibilty that his face might
be eaten by rats.
5:20-5:25 At some point we will have to be like Kurtz,
chosing wether to be a friend of enemy of horror.
5:26-5:31 At some point we will have to be like Jesus,
and face the most brutal of deaths, despite are innocence.
5:32-5:36 If we don't we risk being assimilated byy
the shadow,
5:37-5:42 and all of our work in favor of the good becomes
null and void.
5:43-5:46 In the next chapter, we will discuss another
archetype of the unconscious mind.
5:47-5:51 The shadow is a sort of general term that
encompasses a large ammount of unconscious content.
5:52-5:57 There are specific sections of the shadow
that belong to specific archetypes,
5:58-6:01 two of those unconscious archetypes are the
anima and the animus.
6:02-6:07 Also known as the sisogy.
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