Shadow Work Test

What you reject about yourself controls you without your knowledge

The shadow, a concept developed by Carl Jung, describes the unconscious part of the psyche containing everything we reject, suppress, or do not acknowledge about ourselves. It is not just the "bad": it also contains undeveloped talent, suppressed needs, and parts of us that never felt acceptable.

The more we suppress something, the more energy that suppression consumes, and the more it controls our behavior from the unconscious. Integrating the shadow does not mean "becoming bad" but making the unconscious conscious so we can choose from true freedom.

How to recognize your shadow?

• Projection: what activates you intensely in others is usually yours
• Disproportionate reactions: when something triggers or upsets you far more than expected
• Automatic and rapid judgments about certain types of people or behaviors
• Golden shadow: excessive admiration or envy toward what others have and you reject in yourself

How it shows up in everyday life

The shadow rarely announces itself as such. It shows up disguised as reactions that, seen from the outside, look disproportionate to whatever triggered them:

• That coworker you "can't stand" without being able to fully explain why they irritate you so much — often embodies a trait you learned to hide in yourself a long time ago.
• Admiring someone intensely for a quality (confidence, success, the freedom to say no) that you've had off-limits for yourself for years: that's the golden shadow at work.
• Blowing up over something small — a comment, a delay, a gesture — when the real emotional charge was coming from somewhere else and that moment was just the final straw.
• Sabotaging something good right when it starts working, as if part of you didn't believe you deserved to keep it.

None of these reactions define you as a person: they're signals pointing to where something your conscious mind hasn't yet been able to name is operating.

What does this test measure?

The test evaluates 25 situations of projection, judgment, and reaction to identify which aspects of yourself you are most actively rejecting, which type of shadow (personal, collective, golden) is most predominant in you, and how it manifests in your relationships and decisions.

What will you get?

A map of your main projections and rejections, what hidden needs or potentials might lie there, and how to begin integrating them. In the PRO report, Block F crosses with sub-Block C1 (Role and Shadow) for a deeper analysis.