Status Updates From Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales

"As Jung once said, when you study fairy tales you can study the anatomy of man... You cannot think of the Gilgamesh Epic apart from the Babylonian-Sumerian civilization, and you cannot think of the Odyssey apart from the Grecian, but the fairy tale can migrate better, for it is so elementary and so reduced to its basic structural elements that it appeals to everybody.”

Apparently Jungian psychology teaches that we should work to integrate our Shadow selves into our expressed selves. I wonder how that translates to fairy tales, which people say are usually lessons and morality tales... How to be both truthful and wise? Perhaps only art can help save the world.

"We might therefore say that the shadow is the dark, unlived, and repressed side of the ego complex...". Ohmygosh I was just thinking about Uprooted and the whole fighting the evil of the corrupted trees and I think this concept of The Shadow totally applies.