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Behind the Hills, Into Shadow

Started by Shana A, September 19, 2011, 01:37:34 PM

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September 19, 2011, 01:37:34 PM
Behind the Hills, Into Shadow

September 17, 2011 by Quinnae Moongazer

http://quinnae.wordpress.com/2011/09/17/behind-the-hills-into-shadow/

In my last article I talked about some of the 'sorrows' of gender activism (and they could apply to activism generally, to be sure) centring primarily on how one knows when to do the right thing and how one knows when to stay the hand of one's righteous indignation and rage.

Yet as any of us know, perhaps all too well, this is scarcely where the problems end and I would like to examine a few further issues through the lens of the Shadow as understood by Carl Jung, a very helpful psychological metaphor that I thank Sady Doyle for introducing to the conversation. Let us begin with a fairly acceptable Wikipedia definition of the thing in question:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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