Shadows of a Stranger

In Jungian psychology, the shadow or “shadow aspect” may refer to the entirety of the unconscious, i.e., everything of which a person is not fully conscious, an unconscious aspect of the personality which the conscious ego does not recognize in itself. Because one tends to reject or remain ignorant of the least desirable aspects of ones personality, the shadow is largely negative.

There are, however, positive aspects which may also remain hidden in ones shadow. “Everyone carries a shadow,” Jung wrote, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.

I am not surem who this guy is, but he is moving from one street corner to another.

A aged couple on the move holding hands.