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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.23
EAN num: 9780062548474
ISBN number: 0062548476
Label: HarperOne
Manufacturer: HarperOne
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 96
Printing Date: June 22, 1988
Publishing house: HarperOne
Release Date: June 22, 1988
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Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.
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A Little Book on the Human Shadow (Little Books) If you really want to understand yourself, and overcome whatever seems out of control in you, it's essential to understand what the shadow side is, and how to work with it. This simple little book really lays it out clearly.
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Bly writes, "We spend our life until we're twenty deciding what parts of ourself to put into the bag, and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get them out again." We all have sides to ourselves that we wish weren't there and it feels like how the h--- did it get there in the very first place? This book illuminates in a magnificent way how to learn and embrace all aspects of the self. Its a powerful tool towards integration of our many differing desires, voices, and wanderings within,
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If you're participating in the Mankind Project New Warrior Training, it is likely that this book was recommended to you. I found the basic premise of the book (i.e. Bly's introduction of the concept of the human shadow and the long bag we drag behind us) to be very solid and prescient. However, I felt that overall the book tended to be rather rambling and sometimes even incoherent, as if Bly was trying to identify a close relationship between subjects and concepts that had little or nothing to do with each other. I especially felt that the poetry discussed in the book failed to contribute anything to the subject matter. Now it could very well be that I simply missed the point; I do not proclaim to be an expert on poetry or the concept of the human shadow. But overall I did not feel like I gained a great deal from reading this book. I think Bly would have written a better and more helpful book had he concentrated more on the issue of the shadow and the "long bag," subjects that intrigued me greatly when I read about them here for the very first time. It's a short book and doesn't take long to read, so even if you don't get as much out of it as other people might, it's still worth reading simply because, if nothing else, you won't need to devote a lot of time to it.
As for the reviewer who dismissed it as a "self-help" book, I'm not sure what to make of that comment. Some of the subjects discussed in this book entail deep, thoughtful reflection on one's own personality and being. Serious introspection and self-analysis is necessary to do the kind of work Bly talks about. I suppose anything we do to make ourselves better people can be described as "self-help," but I don't know why in the world that would be considered a bad thing. This book certainly doesn't read like some of the superficial popular self-help books I've taken a look at over the years. Bly suggests no quick fixes or easy 1-2-3 solutions. This work is for people who are dead serious about committing themselves to an honest and almost certainly painful examination of themselves.
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Robert Bly has done an excellent job of presenting the childhood origins of problems that plague people in their adult life. His concise and poetic writing allows for the easy understanding of what Carl Jung termed the human "shadow." This book helped me realize how the subconscious seeds of obsessive/compulsive behavior are planted early in life. Understanding the origins of behavior is very freeing from the guilt associated with addiction and is the very first step in correcting undesireable actions.
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This is a great book by Robert Bly. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in living a more mature, peaceful, and accepting life.
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