The Shadow

One of the very great things that C.G. Jung contributed To mankind's understanding Was the concept of the shadow That everybody has a shadow And that the main task of the psychotherapist is To do what he called, "to integrate the evil" To as it were, put the devil in us in its proper function 'Cause you see it's always the devil The unacknowledged one The outcast, the scapegoat The bastard, the bad guy, you see the black sheep of the family It's always from that point Which we could call the fly in the ointment, you see That generation comes In other words, the same way as in the drama To have the play it's necessary to introduce a villain It's necessary to introduce a certain element of trouble So, in the whole scheme of life, there has to be the shadow The shadow The bastard, the bad guy, the black sheep of the family The shadow Integrate the evil Integrate the evil The shadow The bastard, the bad guy, the black sheep of the family The shadow Everybody has a shadow Because without the shadow there can't be the substance So, this is why There is a very strange association between Crime and all naughty things and holiness You see holiness is way beyond being good Good people aren't necessarily holy people A holy person is one who's whole Who has as it were reconciled his opposites And so there's always something slightly scary about holy people And other people react to them in very strange ways They can't make up their minds whether they're saints or devils So holy people have throughout history Always created a great deal of trouble Along with their creative results Take Jesus for example The trouble that Jesus created is absolutely incalculable Think of the Crusades, the Inquisition, the... heaven only knows What's gone on in the name of Jesus Freud is a big troublemaker, as well as a great healer You see it all goes together The shadow The bastard, the bad guy, the black sheep of the family The shadow Integrate the evil Integrate the evil The shadow The bastard, the bad guy, the black sheep of the family The shadow Everybody has a shadow Because without the shadow there can't be the substance So, the holy person is scary Because he is like the earthquakes Or better still he's like the ocean See, the ocean on a lovely sunny day you can say "Oh isn't that gorgeous? And you can go into it, and relax, and float around But boy when the storm comes, does that thing get mad, terrifying So, there is in us the ocean, you see? And Jung felt that the whole point was to bring the two together By a kind of fantastic honesty To penetrate one's own motivations to the depths