further reading on psychoanalysis

Further reading
For an excellent introduction to psychoanalysis read,
• The Wolfman and Other Cases by Sigmund Freud (Penguin)
• On Klein, read Hanna Segal, Introduction to the Work of Melanie Klein (Hogarth)
• On Jung, read Andrew Samuels, Jung and the Post-Jungians (Routledge)
• On Lacan, read Darian Leader, Introducing Lacan (Icon) and Slavoj Zizek, Looking Awry (MIT Press)

About your expert

Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst practising in London and president of
The College of Psychoanalysts UK. He is a member of the Centre for
Freudian Analysis and Research (cfar.org.uk), and his books include Why do Women Write More Letters Than They Post?, Why Do People Get Ill?(with David Corfield) and The New Black: Mourning, Melancholia and Depression.
For further information visit his website darianleader.com.

Getting to know your 'dark side'

People often refer to a "dark side" - their own, or someone else's - but Carl Jung had another name for the part of us we like to keep hidden from public view. The "shadow self", as he called it, is one aspect of our unconscious - the instinctive part of our psyche that we try to repress. It represents the direct opposite of our "persona" - the public face we like to present to the world.
Our shadow will possess qualities that we might find distasteful, or threatening. If we have been raised to believe in the importance of good manners and acceptance, our shadow self may be rude and intolerant.
For the most part, our shadow self rarely surfaces, but we may find that it emerges when we feel threatened or stressed - and some therapists believe it can be useful to embrace it. You may not like to own up to a long-hidden aggressive side, for example, but there could be an occasion when it saves you from harm.
Sarah Wilson

I'm interested in the two identities a person can have, the 'shadow self' is a good example of the version of ourselves we repress. This is also a good example on how we have a 'persona' and how we present ourselves to the world.

This text is a useful insight to theories on the unconscious mind

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