C. G. Jung - Shame: The Hidden Wound of the Soul (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798254126829)

Why do we feel shame, and why is this very feeling the key to healing?

Shame is the most concealed of all emotions. It hides behind depression, addiction, narcissism, and chronic self devaluation. It drives people into isolation, damages relationships, and prevents the very thing they need most: to be seen and accepted.

And yet, the psychology of shame has long remained marginal, neglected and repressed in much the same way shame itself operates.

C.G. Jung and Shame closes this gap. It is the first book to examine shame systematically through the lens of Jungian analytical psychology and shows that shame is not only a wound, but also a compass. It points toward the shadow, the persona, and the repressed parts of the self that await integration.

The book explores shame in all its dimensions. As a bodily experience that resists conscious control. As a guardian at the threshold between the conscious and the unconscious. As a driving force behind narcissism and an inheritance of dysfunctional family systems. As a cultural phenomenon ranging from cancel culture to historical guilt. As a religious motif from the Fall to the Buddhist conscience. As a traumatic seal that silences victims. And as a creative force from which profound art can emerge.

Drawing on the work of C.G. Jung, Léon Wurmser, Silvan Tomkins, Brené Brown, Judith Herman, and Donald Kalsched, Markus Markusen brings together depth psychology, clinical insight, myth, and cultural analysis.

The result is a book that does not merely explain, but confronts and engages.

Because it invites the reader to recognize shame for what it truly is: not the enemy, but the messenger. Not the end of the story, but the beginning.