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Bright shadow Descending into one's own Shadow is initially only unpleasant, and the results are not funny at all, but it has a great advantage: the more you know your badness, the more you can protect yourself from that of others. Evil within us recognizes evil outside. If I remain naive, I fall victim to that of others ... the idealistic fool who lets himself be cheated by everyone can be helped not with pity, but by leading him to his inner Shadow. Marie-Louise von Franz, The female in the fairy tale, 1979