The shadow
It is the "dark side" of the ego, and the evil that we are capable
of
is often stored there. Actually, the shadow is amoral -- neither good
nor
bad, just like animals. An animal is capable of tender care for its
young
and vicious killing for food, but it doesn't choose to do either. It
just
does what it does. It is "innocent." But from our human perspective,
the
animal world looks rather brutal, inhuman, so the shadow becomes
something
of a garbage can for the parts of ourselves that we can't quite admit
to.
Symbols of the shadow include the snake (as in the garden of Eden),
the dragon, monsters, and demons. It often guards the entrance to a
cave
or a pool of water, which is the collective unconscious
