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140writing. In this relationship there is an endless exchange of positions between the subject and itsshadow.The study of the shadow goes back to the Platonic conception of twin souls which seekreunion to form a whole. Jung was, however, the first to study the shadow as an archetype or astructural function in the psyche. Structural as it is, the archetype of the shadow dwells on thehidden, darker aspects of a person’s psyche. These aspects are denied and repressed into theunconscious only to be projected unto others. The shadow also reflects something that was oncesundered from the psyche in its early channeling and command of objects of desire. This hasobvious connections to the subject’s missed encounters with the origin or what Lacan calls in hisThe Four Fundamental Concepts “ causal gap” which is “at the heart of the structure of theunconscious” (46). The shadow is this gap. Jung was the first psychologist to offer a detailedanalysis of the figure of the shadow and its psychological function. Jung contends that theshadow can be incorporated harmoniously in the psyche through the process of “individuation”which is achieved by the acceptance of the shadow and the recognition of the darker sides of thepsychea recognition that is indispensable for an archetype of wholeness. Apart from theincorporation of the shadow, there should be an acceptance of the animathe female element ofthe psyche. The Jungian analytic theory of psychology, however, is based on the principle ofoppositeswhich is to say, every thought produces its opposite. The dualistic nature of thingsand words has always been the focus of all discourses from time immemorial.Because of the hole the shadow leaves in the subject, and because the subject can neverentirely know itself and fill in the void left by the shadow, the subject maintains a dualrelationship with the shadow, an acute duality that is inassimilable and that is constantly missed.