ABSTRACT
Jung was perfectly aware that the shadow was as important as the object and light that cast it:
If the repressed tendencies, the shadow as I call them, were obviously evil, there would be no problem whatever. But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but — convention forbids!
(Jung 1938: para. 134)