terelee's review against another edition
5.0
"Uno no se ilumina imaginando figuras de luz sino haciendo consciente la oscuridad" (Carl G. Jung)
AMÉ este libro. Lo ví citado por varios autores y decidí buscarlo en versión física. Tiene numerosos ensayos relacionados con el concepto de sombra que se deriva de los hallazgos de Freud y Jung. La sombra es, en pocas palabras, lo que una persona no desea ser.
Está dividido en distintas secciones que abarcan una gran cantidad de temas. Arranca desde qué es la sombra y cómo se origina, sigue con la sombra en aspectos como la espiritualidad, el cuerpo, la política y el trabajo y las últimas secciones se relacionan con cómo trabajar con la sombra. Lo recomiendo ampliamente si alguien tiene interés en el tema, me voló la cabeza en muchas cosas y sé que voy a volver a él.
AMÉ este libro. Lo ví citado por varios autores y decidí buscarlo en versión física. Tiene numerosos ensayos relacionados con el concepto de sombra que se deriva de los hallazgos de Freud y Jung. La sombra es, en pocas palabras, lo que una persona no desea ser.
Está dividido en distintas secciones que abarcan una gran cantidad de temas. Arranca desde qué es la sombra y cómo se origina, sigue con la sombra en aspectos como la espiritualidad, el cuerpo, la política y el trabajo y las últimas secciones se relacionan con cómo trabajar con la sombra. Lo recomiendo ampliamente si alguien tiene interés en el tema, me voló la cabeza en muchas cosas y sé que voy a volver a él.
shiradest's review
4.0
Although I personally do not see this as a book for those who are still actively dealing with panic traumas (particularly related to childhood abuses), this book is extremely useful, in many chapters, for working through the details of getting to the bottom of the traumas and less severe but nonetheless hurtful events of earlier life. I found in particular those excercises for finding and dealing with Shadow projections to be potentially helpful, if rather difficult, and useful. This is a book that bears re-reading with pen in hand, and going back through one's journals while working on the excercises.
(I found this book on my landlady's book shelf just after my therapist mentioned that being emotionally exhausted and wanting to give up was a by-product of running, with the Shadow ever on my heels, from those very parts of me that need to be acknowledged and integrated/accepted).
Comme dit-on en français, bon courage ! (The phrase that comes strongly to mind here is what the French say: courage, which means both courage or bravery, but also in this case, may the work go well, as it will clearly not be easy...)
(I found this book on my landlady's book shelf just after my therapist mentioned that being emotionally exhausted and wanting to give up was a by-product of running, with the Shadow ever on my heels, from those very parts of me that need to be acknowledged and integrated/accepted).
Comme dit-on en français, bon courage ! (The phrase that comes strongly to mind here is what the French say: courage, which means both courage or bravery, but also in this case, may the work go well, as it will clearly not be easy...)
luchiiaa's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
lulisima's review against another edition
3.5
osea está re bueno pero a veces se ponía medio espirituoso y la mayoría de las cosas ya las sé y las trabajé en terapia we
spiderlilies's review
2.0
This is an anthology of 65 different essays, which I find hard to rate as a whole because there are a couple decent essays mixed in with the garbage. Essay 44 from Audre Lorde was a highlight and the main reason I decided to give 2 stars instead of 1. I'm going to look into more of her work for sure.
The rest, however, was steeped in too much spiritualism, religion, and dream interpretation for my liking and many of these essays were the same points restated in different manners.
Then there were essays that felt actively harmful, such as the implications of a victim of bullying having a shadow self that calls out to his bullies and essay 58, which says that guilt, fear, anxiety, and depression are all "the result of my mentally pinching myself...this directly implies, incredible as it may seem, that I want this painful symptom to be here" and "if you are depressed, try to be more depressed."
This followed by essay 59, which I had to laugh at when it suggested that our unutilized artistic energy is going to be used by Reagan to nuke other countries. A very wtf??? moment.
That said, the Jungian concept of a shadow-self is intriguing and I think it's important to acknowledge parts of ourselves that we repress and to do self-reflection as much as we can, but this book was not it for me.
The rest, however, was steeped in too much spiritualism, religion, and dream interpretation for my liking and many of these essays were the same points restated in different manners.
Then there were essays that felt actively harmful, such as the implications of a victim of bullying having a shadow self that calls out to his bullies and essay 58, which says that guilt, fear, anxiety, and depression are all "the result of my mentally pinching myself...this directly implies, incredible as it may seem, that I want this painful symptom to be here" and "if you are depressed, try to be more depressed."
This followed by essay 59, which I had to laugh at when it suggested that our unutilized artistic energy is going to be used by Reagan to nuke other countries. A very wtf??? moment.
That said, the Jungian concept of a shadow-self is intriguing and I think it's important to acknowledge parts of ourselves that we repress and to do self-reflection as much as we can, but this book was not it for me.
fcannon's review
3.0
I was expecting more, but these essays are very short and you can skip around to find something that clicks for you. 'A Little Book on the Human Shadow' was much more interesting for me.
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