The Shadow Is Consciousness: Ego, Self-Deception, and the Architecture Revealed by The Red Book
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) August 10, 2026 Chris Gabriel
This theoretical and phenomenological paper proposes a revisionary account of Jung’s shadow. Rather than locating the shadow primarily within an unconscious domain, it argues that shadow phenomena may arise within consciousness itself when phenomenally present experience exceeds, contradicts, or is distorted by the autobiographical self-model. The paper develops a four-layer...