Blackness, Jungian concept for confrontation with the shadow, alchemical term for decomposition
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In alchemy, nigredo, or blackness, means putrefaction or decomposition. Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher's stone, all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter.[1]
In analytical psychology, the term became a metaphor for "the dark night of the soul, when an individual confronts the shadow within."[2]
^Greenberg, Arthur (March 2000). A chemical history tour: Picturing chemistry from alchemy to modern molecular science. New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 0-471-35408-2.
^Robert H. Hopeke, A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung (Boston 1989) p. 165
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