Shadow
161 books featuring this archetype
The Shadow condenses denied or disruptive potentials within the self or polity. Confronting it integrates strength and prevents projection onto others.
The Iliad
Homer • Greek
Epic of Gilgamesh
Sin-leqi-unninni • Mesopotamian
Mahabharata
Vyasa • Indian
Poetic Edda
Anonymous • Germanic
Prose Edda
Snorri Sturluson • Germanic
The Aeneid
Virgil • Roman
Beowulf
Anonymous • Germanic
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles • Greek
Oresteia
Aeschylus • Greek
Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Malory • Germanic
Journey to the West
Wu Cheng'en • East Asian
Antigone
Sophocles • Greek
Apollodorus' Library
Pseudo-Apollodorus • Greek
Theogony
Hesiod • Greek
Atrahasis
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
Shahnameh
Ferdowsi • Persian
Avesta
Various • Persian
The Song of Roland
Anonymous • Germanic
The Bacchae
Euripides • Greek
The Descent of Ishtar
Anonymous • Mesopotamian
The Mabinogion
Anonymous • Celtic
Nibelungenlied
Anonymous • Germanic
Völsunga saga
Anonymous • Germanic
Medea
Euripides • Greek