As a tendency, we ignore it or repress it. The Shadow as part of our unconscious often bears the qualities that contradicts our personal values which the persona, our social personality, upholds. The Shadow in Jungian Archetype is ‘’the darker side of the unconscious self, the inferior and less pleasing aspects of the personality, which we wish to suppress” (Guerin, 2002). Then this faceless figure would rouse him from sleep and make him do its bidding. Hyde, a literal and figurative Shadow appears which would terrorize London and eerily, his friend was there, sleeping and smiling at a dream. Henry Jekyll and Individuation.Įven in Utterson’s dream before he had come face to face with Mr. Hyde’, more than showing the struggle between good and evil, attempts to be speculative in the subject of the duality of human nature: what if humans could separate the bad, unacceptable part of themselves (not necessarily referring to any sort of universal pattern of bad, but bad as in what the society dictates) which they hide, from the socially accepted or a personal standard of “good”? Stevenson then presents a ‘what then’ in the revelation of what becomes of Dr. Robert Louis Stevenson in his well- known novel ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Eliot’s poem “The Hollow Men” is, in context, referring to Shadow Archetype from Carl Jung’s The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, or some common representations of shadow in various literary forms, it suggests one thing in common: something hidden from view yet looms and is certainly there. "Between the conception and the creation.falls the Shadow." (lines 78-82) One day maybe my concept will become a creation, until then I shall continiue to search aimlessly for whatever it is in my shadow land.“Between the idea / And the reality / Between the motion / And the act / Falls the shadow” Whether this stanza taken from T.S. Yet, I have no clue where it is, what it is, or how to get rid of it. I can almost see it, I could almost tell you what colors are in it, and I can even tell when there has been a change in it. ![]() ( In the poem, however, I don't believe that is how it is meant.) My shadow of the image that is in me tortures me. ![]() That line is the best description I have ever heard for the way I feel. "Shape without form, shade without color" (line 11). I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes thinking about it. Very few people understand what I am talking about. There is an image in here, or something, that desprately needs and wants to come out. I feel every day as if there is something trying to break free from me. ![]() Van Gogh cut of his ear, I believe it was because he could not depict the image, emotion,or feeling, that he was trying to convey. I have no idea about what lies in my personal shadow land between graduating from college and being famous, a very large stretch.Īs a self titled artist shadow lands are what my life are made of. I believe it will happen, but all I can truly see right now is the end result and my schooling. I face these problems in many areas of my life, such as my desire to be the world's most reknown fashion designer. ![]() I am not one to make many things a reality. In my personal life I have major idea's every single day. What happens between the idea and the idea becomming a reality is a "shadow land". "Between the idea and the reality.falls the shadow" (lines 71-76) Everything in life starts as a simple idea.
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