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From: Jeff on 23 Aug 2006 22:10
My first poem, inspired by my own recovery work. Carl Jung used the
word "shadow" as a term to indicate what the poem describes.

Posted to: soc.support.depression.misc, alt.psychology.jung,
alt.recovery, and alt.support.depression.recovery.


When We Claim Our Shadow

When we claim our shadow;
The parts of ourselves that we don't wish to see,
The parts of ourselves that we're afraid we might be;
Parts we wish we could be and think that we're not,
So that we become jealous when we see what others have got--

When we claim our shadow,
The chains that have bound us start falling to dust,
The unneeded armor will moulder and rust,
A change in our lives soon shall we see
As our souls and our spirits we work to set free.
-Jeff H.
From: Doug Laidlaw on 24 Aug 2006 23:06
Jeff wrote:

> My first poem, inspired by my own recovery work. Carl Jung used the
> word "shadow" as a term to indicate what the poem describes.
>
> Posted to: soc.support.depression.misc, alt.psychology.jung,
> alt.recovery, and alt.support.depression.recovery.
>
>
> When We Claim Our Shadow
>
> When we claim our shadow;
> The parts of ourselves that we don't wish to see,
> The parts of ourselves that we're afraid we might be;
> Parts we wish we could be and think that we're not,
> So that we become jealous when we see what others have got--
>
> When we claim our shadow,
> The chains that have bound us start falling to dust,
> The unneeded armor will moulder and rust,
> A change in our lives soon shall we see
> As our souls and our spirits we work to set free.
> -Jeff H.

Very true. I still try to look on my depression as a neurosis, to be healed
by this kind of approach, although I have been told that it has a
hereditary origin. More often however, I see it as a fact of life, and try
to roll with its punches.

I don't know much about psychology, but I had one experience when (perhaps
helped by alcohol) I reacted to the dancers at my brother's wedding that I
was watching some primeval fertility rite. I lost it as soon as I tried to
put it into words. Jung's archetypes immediately came to mind.

Doug.
--
I am a part of all that I have met.
- Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses."

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