The Shadow: Man's Garbage Can

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[...] At the beginning of the story, a miller is looking for a better way to grind his grain. The Devil makes him a bargain: he will give the miller a new, efficient way to grind if the miller will give him whatever is in the backyard. The miller agrees, thinking the Devil is talking about an old tree that rests in back of the house. Unbeknownst to him, the Devil is actually referring to his daughter who is standing behind the house. [...]

[...] The Shadow: Man's Garbage Can Every child is born with a vast library of experiences which Jungian psychology describes as the collective unconscious, the contents of which are called archetypes. These archetypes are unlearned tendencies to experience life in certain ways, and manifest themselves in several forms. Some of the forms include the mother, the father, the child, and the maiden. Perhaps the most mysterious of these archetypes is the shadow (Boree 4). Jung described the shadow as the part of the collective conscious that deals with sex and life instincts. [...]

[...] I felt younger, lighter, happier in body (Stevenson This statement shows that there is a genuine good that can come from reincorporating the shadow into one's everyday life. Where he went wrong, though, is that he didn't have any balance. His other persona, Mr. Hyde, was allowed to run free without having any sort of check, which was the part of Jekyll that he physically separated from Hyde. Any sort of imbalance like this is detrimental and eventually leads to the demise of Dr. [...]