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35: The Shadow of Joseph's Polygamy & its Ongoing Institutional Reverberations

Latter Day Struggles

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The Last Tactic for Running From Our Shadow

Joseph struggled so much with the acknowledgment of his own shadow self. The very last tactic for running from our shadow is hostility and judgment. Joseph was known to be very, very hostile to those who rejected his invitations to practice an plural marriage or polyandre. He also threatened his own wife Emma with eternal destruction if she would not support the practice of polygamy.

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