ON-DEMAND COURSE

Love your Dark Shadow

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
James Hollis
TOPIC
Jungian
Format
4 class audio course
DURATION
2 Hrs 45 Mins

Payment options: Credit Card or PayPal.

Discover and embrace your inner dark shadow with this transformative course guided by James Hollis. Through Dostoevsky’s Underground man you will gain insights into often-hidden parts of yourself. A beautiful companion guide created by our therapeutic team provides exercises and tools. These will help you integrate these teachings and cultivate a compassionate and whole relationship with yourself.

Course Description

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Deepen self-love and love for others through embracing our dark shadow. 

In this compelling four-class audio course, James Hollis invites us to explore the lesser-known, often uncomfortable parts of ourselves through the lens of Dostoevsky’s ‘Underground Man’ . With Hollis as our guide, we encounter the Underground Man—a cynical grim figure embodying society’s unspoken thoughts, unfiltered emotions, and uncomfortable truths. Hollis suggests that this character is an “X-ray of the human shadow,” daring us to look inward, to find aspects of ourselves that we may often resist or deny.

Through Hollis’s teachings, we are asked to soften our stance toward the Underground Man and what he represents, challenging us to see him as part of our own inner landscape. This journey invites us to confront thoughts and emotions we may consider unattractive or undesirable, yet which hold the key to a fuller, more authentic self-awareness. In meeting the shadow, Hollis echoes Jung’s wisdom: “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Through this course, Hollis illuminates the hidden gifts our shadow offers, including the courage to question societal norms and the drive to honor individual uniqueness. He warns that denying our shadow only deepens our internal divide, leading us away from true autonomy. Ultimately, ‘Love Your Dark Shadow’ opens the possibility of self-compassion and wholeness, reminding us of Jung’s call to love even the “enemy within.”

This course comes with a great companion guide to help you integrate the material. See here for a one-page example.

This program is being offered by the Jung Center of Houston and the Jung Platform. The original recording of this lecture took place at the Jung Center. The recording has been remastered. The lectures are available now.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Learn about the darker aspects of human nature and the surprising benefits of learning to love your shadow.
  • Experience a more effortless path to decreasing judgment and increasing self compassion though acceptance of shadow rather than the struggle of willful aspiration.
  • Deepen your self-knowledge through understanding the human condition across time and cultures, being a lover of literature and the classics.
  • Live a more authentic and spontaneous life through greater self-acceptance.
  • Grow your capacity to worth with shadow within your clients and yourself, being a therapist or other healing/helping professional

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
4 audio recordings
Companion Guide
Accurate subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

James Hollis

James Hollis, Ph.D., is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform since 2016, and one of the best Jungian teachers of our age.

Scholarships

We here at Jung Platform want to make these programs available to anyone. If you would love to participate yet can’t pay for the full course, then please send us an email at scholarships@jungplatform.com and describe why you feel you qualify for a scholarship, how much you can pay, and what you will do to help the Jung Platform promote this and other programs.

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