
[Rerun] Robert Greene on The Laws of Human Nature
The Psychology Podcast
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The Shadow of Truth
When we were very young, we were like complete individuals. We felt a wide range of emotions that were natural to us. But as we get older, we're socialized and we have to learn to repress them. And they go into what Jung called the shadow. They cause all kinds of weird behavior. I call it like looking for signs of the shadow. The fact that we're always trying to hide it and contain it and repress us has a long term deleterious effect on us.
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