Chapter 8
In: Collective Structures of Imagination in Jungian Interpretation
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Abstract
The article will concentrate on selected examples of potentially successful therapy of shadow. Apart from awakening of one’s awareness of shadow’s presence, they may help to find constructive solutions. Both artistic domains—film and literature—do not cure anything in a direct way. The metaphorical quality of literary codes and the symbolic space of cinema creations demand knowledge and experience on how to interpret their messages. The more opening books one has read, the more creative films one has watched, one’s place of understanding of what is going in the world transforms more radically into a richer one. On the other hand, both literature and film also try to develop simple and universal codes of communication that can appeal to anybody, even an inexperienced person, on the condition that appeal to human imagination and emotional sphere will be psychologically relevant, and that is why it is finally effective. The article considers such chosen examples.