Title: Self Versus Shadow
Date Written: 7/27/05
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For Weekly Challenge # 37: Archetypes. I suggest reading about the Self and the Shadow at a website like wikipedia to understand this more.
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The Self, according to Jung, is something that can only be achieved after death.
Date Written: 7/27/05
Word Count: 100
Rating: PG-13
Notes: For Weekly Challenge # 37: Archetypes. I suggest reading about the Self and the Shadow at a website like wikipedia to understand this more.
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The Self, according to Jung, is something that can only be achieved after death.
When Gonou became Hakkai, he tried to become the Self. He put aside the petty, always smiling no matter what happened, kind and generous to everyone, no matter what.
After all, even if he wasn't trying to be perfect, he had no room to judge.
So Hakkai became the Self, and Gonou became the Shadow pushed far into the back of the psyche to appear in Hakkai's dreams, drenched in blood, staining his skin dark.
The fact that the Self couldn't hate the Shadow unnerved Hakkai.
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