Inventory; Strengthening Care about-Esteem

That is Step four. It needs an extensive test (“a looking around and brave ethical list of our selves”), with a perspective for the discovering habits of impaired ideas and you may decisions, titled “profile defects.” Brand new “exact characteristics of one’s wrongs” will then be “accepted so you can God, to our selves also to several other personal,” in Action 5.

Getting Jung, the fresh shadow “is a moral situation one to demands the complete pride identification” (Storr, 91), and you can “no advances otherwise growth in study can be done up until (it) is actually acceptably faced.” (Whitmont, 165) “The new shadow personifies exactly what the customer won’t admit on the themselves yet is often thrusting itself on your myself and indirectly – as an example, inferior characteristics away from reputation or any other incompatible inclinations.” (Storr, 221) Attention to the dark regions of the new identification, an essential condition getting worry about-training, requires “considerable moral efforts,” and you will “painstaking functions stretching more a long period.” (Storr, 91). (more…)