#gary bobroff

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

Integrating the shadow means seeing plainly all the ways that we fail, and all the ways that we continue to make the same mistakes over and over again; it means seeing our failings right up close. How many of us want to admit our worst qualities, our weaknesses, our most shameful deeds, our most painful failings? The shadow can be present in our drives for power or living through the inner voices of our mothers or fathers. We might express the shadow through our sexuality, our religiosity or through our financial dealings. We might express it through the way we fail others. Shadow work means wrestling with past regrets and difficult inner realities. Our shadow is the moral dilemmas we are living with, in slow motion.

Gary Bobroff

[wendyrward]

Ongoing Therapy

I was reading other books at the same time but still it took me months to finish Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung by Gary Bobroff--it’s a slog reading about the life and work of a turn of the nineteenth century Swiss scholar and the father (along with Sigmund Freud) of analytical psychology but much like the therapy with my own Jungian therapist, the work to understand is ongoing.  Woody Allen once said about his own psychoanalysis, ''On balance, I would say it has been helpful, but not as helpful as I had hoped ...,'' and ''there were no dramatic moments, there were no insights, there were no tears, there was, you know, nothing special.'' Yeah, I get it. This book is informative but sorta boring and maybe the Wikipedia page would have held the extent of my interest not a 240-page book.

Wendy Ward                                                          http://wendyrward.tumblr.com/

[wendyrward]

Nutshell Knowledge

HEEEY.