What is a psychological shadow? My best definition of this gray subject is the undesirable values, beliefs, and personality traits that are held in our subconscious and acted through our conscious. Because these traits are undesirable and not operant to us they produce a sort of self-hate double standard we impose upon friends, family, and the world. Because we don't like the traits in our shadow when we see them in the other people we have no tolerance for them. The shadow is the traits we hate most about ourselves but have not yet realized their presence, and because of this we despise other people for the same traits.…
