The Second Function Is So Important

The persona is the most conscious part of who we are, but the ego is another conscious aspect. When we define ourselves through limitations, we define ourselves by only being like, really extraverted or really introverted. There are components of our ego that are available to us, but we've actually shoved them into the shadow. We already have a shadow filled with things that we don't want to see about ourselves because they're the bad news. Why would we put things that are neutral over there and increase the size of the shadow? Because self with the capital s is taking in the entire territory. It's as much of the shadow as we can possibly access in order to understand what lives outside