In her seminal work, “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales,” Marie-Louise von Franz shares her Jungian perspective by reminding us that:
“The shadow is simply a ‘mythological’ name for all that is in me about which I cannot directly know – the unknown. Upon deeper exploration of the unconscious, we discover other clusters of reactions, feelings, moods and ideas that make up our sense of Self…Shadows reside in these dark places inside us that we have yet to discover, both as individuals and members of a larger society.”
Yes! There's a chapter in the book with Father Callahan where he is meditating on small evil vs big (Satan, vampires) evil and how the modern world lacks big evil that previous eras had. What constitutes "evil" is a big theme.
In her seminal work, “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales,” Marie-Louise von Franz shares her Jungian perspective by reminding us that:
“The shadow is simply a ‘mythological’ name for all that is in me about which I cannot directly know – the unknown. Upon deeper exploration of the unconscious, we discover other clusters of reactions, feelings, moods and ideas that make up our sense of Self…Shadows reside in these dark places inside us that we have yet to discover, both as individuals and members of a larger society.”
Yes! There's a chapter in the book with Father Callahan where he is meditating on small evil vs big (Satan, vampires) evil and how the modern world lacks big evil that previous eras had. What constitutes "evil" is a big theme.