Making Plans For Steven Crowder
The Shadow of Manic Repression
A look at the tragic life of former failed child actor turned failed stand-up comic turned controversial YouTube host Steven Crowder, and the Jungian mechanisms of repression that have led to the subject and his father’s creation of an abominable, erratic, and dysfunctional shadow monster.
The shadow is that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors. The shadow contains all sorts of qualities, capacities and potential, which if not recognized and owned, maintain a state of impoverishment in the personality and deprive the person of sources of energy and bridges of connectedness with others.
A person might believe that to be assertive is to be selfish; so he goes through life being pushed around by others and deep down seething with resentment, which in turn makes him feel guilty. In this case, his potential for assertiveness and his resentment both form part of his shadow.
The shadow is almost always encountered in projection onto another individual or group. This means that I see in an other that I do not like. This tends to keep happening, and I may begin to notice that a lot of other people are rather greedy, for example. And I may begin to feel censorious or judgmental about their greed. But, with luck, it may dawn on me that, what I am disliking in others is actually something with which I struggle within myself.
Why has this happened? From infancy and through childhood and adolescence we pick up from our parents/carers both conscious and unconscious messages about what is acceptable in terms of our body, our feelings and our behaviour. All that is unacceptable is suppressed and repressed and becomes part of our shadow. We not only take in and repress what is unacceptable, we also internalize our carers’ attitudes to these unwanted qualities and characteristics of ourselves.
In a way, the shadow is inherited from one generation to the next, passed from father to son again and again. Many men harbour shadows of deep ancient origin, while others are haunted by freshly birthed specters.
The harsher the attitude, which may have been expressed by withdrawal of love, rejection, physical or emotional abuse, the more hostile we are to these facets of our shadow.
A dysfunctional and repressed shadow can be easily observed in most stand-up comedians and online conmen including Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, Tony Hinchcliffe, Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles, and Jesse Lee Peterson.
At worst, the shadow becomes inextricably entwined with abandonment anxiety so that its emergence can really feel like a matter of life or death.
Thanks Poppa Crowder.
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