Monsters and Overcoming Our Selves
The dormant shadow and unintegrated suffering
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It is a difficult task to recognize the sleeping monster deep within us. It lies dormant that feeds on repressed memories, or trauma, guilt, and unprocessed experiences. The Shadow that remains unseen, unintegrated from the self that we want to project to the world, or sometimes the persona that we wear to express a facet or our personality to the world that is hostile to what we want to become.
Suffering causes displeasure, and is the source of all emotional recoil as a response to any traumatic event.
How it's been read
From readings, counted anonymously: time with the page open, and the furthest movement reached.
Where this note sits
- mentioned in The Human's Animal Impulse · Morality, ethics, and affirming the animal within
- mentions 2025-01-21
- echoes 2025-01-12
- echoes A Journey into the Self · Eight principles of limitation and the Dantean descent
- thread · self a small glossary about the weight of loss
- thread · self A month in the trenches · The knot of incompatible selves
- thread · self Algorithmic realities · A question that assumes a world