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Romancing the Shadow: Illuminating the Dark Side of the Soul
- Narrated by: Dr. Connie Zweig, Dr. Steve Wolf
- Length: 2 hrs and 59 mins
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Publisher's Summary
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious." (C. G. Jung)
Within each woman and man, the dim cavern of the unconscious holds our forbidden feelings, secret wishes, and creative urges. Over time, these "dark" forces take on a life of their own, forming an intuitively recognizable figure - the shadow. A recurring theme in literature and legend, the shadow is like an invisible twin, a stranger that is us yet is not us. When it acts out in the public domain, we witness our leaders, like hero-villains, fall from grace in scandal. Closer to home, we may feel overcome with rage, obsession, and shame or succumb to self-destructive lies, addiction, or depression. These appearances of the shadow introduce us to the Other, a powerful force that defies our efforts to tame and control it.
Steve Wolf, PhD, and Connie Zweig, PhD, innovators in the use of shadow-work in psychotherapy, have helped hundreds of clients in their encounters with the dark side. Seeing it - meeting the shadow - is a first step. Learning to live with it - romancing the shadow - is a lifelong challenge. It means reading the messages encoded in the events of daily life in such a way that we gain consciousness, substance, and soul. In fact, shadow-work is soul work.
With shadow-work, we cultivate a deeper self-knowledge and authenticity. When we identify family shadow patterns, we move toward cultivating family soul. When we untangle romantic projections, we begin to build the soul of a relationship. When we face descent at midlife and meet the underworld shadow, we reclaim the unlived life of the soul. And when we retrieve our lost vitality and creative fertility - the gold in the dark side - we nurture the hungry soul.
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- Joshua
- 17-02-2022
Sublime.
There are no words. I thought I knew what it meant to be integrated. We've all read about Carl Jung's concept of the shadow, and it turns out I was just a boy scout at knowing how deep this concept really went. This book explains not only the shadow but it's archetypes, it's structures and systems, even pieces of Jung's original findings on alchemy. In here you'll find the shadow of the self, the family, and even shadow duality between romantic partners. For a book this short the only thing I can fault it on is that it doesn't go for longer. Goodluck!
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- Anonymous User
- 30-04-2024
How the book made me self-reflect
made me reflect a lot on my childhood, the person I am! especially when it comes to relationships. make me understand the importance of doing the inner work and embracing the shadow
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- mason
- 18-12-2022
Audio at the end sucked, but content was good
Learning about the shadow is always interesting. This touches on the shadow regarding our romances. Where I thought it was about normalising our shadow, and not seeing it as a dark scary thing. Which it does, but through our relationship with our significant others. I guess hint in the name, haha
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