The Controlled Monster: Integrating Your Shadow and Jordan Peterson
Explore the concept of the controlled monster and shadow integration. Learn how Jordan Peterson and Carl Jung view true virtue as having strength under control.
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True virtue comes when you have that dangerous potential but you’ve got it under total control; you have to have the sword before you can choose to keep it sheathed.
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Why they say when you work on yourself you become a controles monster I’ve been through hell and now I know my shadow self I don’t use him but I know my dark traits. And also how come a lot of ppl never get there? As a woman it’s amazing to see how much I’ve over came but I do have that monster in me controled monster and a lot of ppl don’t understand me anymore and that’s ok like really ok being alone without an audience I do have a lot of haters tho but I try to show no blood like a thorn
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Being a controlled monster refers to developing a formidable and intense strength by acknowledging your capacity for danger but choosing to keep it under total control. According to Jordan Peterson, true virtue is not found in being harmless or naive like a rabbit. Instead, it comes from having the competence and potential to be dangerous while possessing the discipline to ensure you do not cause harm unless necessary.
Shadow integration is a process of looking at the parts of yourself that you may be terrified of and transmuting those dark traits into useful strength. Rather than viewing self-improvement as a gentle process of finding your light, this approach involves wrestling with what Carl Jung called the shadow. By integrating these traits, you move from being a harmless person to someone with the competence and formidable strength required to navigate life.
In the context of shadow integration and Jordan Peterson's teachings, being harmless is often equated with being unable to act, which makes one vulnerable to being eaten. True virtue requires having the capacity for 'teeth'—the ability to be formidable—and then choosing not to bite. It is the difference between being naive and being integrated; virtue is the result of having dangerous potential that is kept under total control through competence.
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