What did Carl Jung mean when he said “the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing”?

Persona he defines as how we would like to be and how we wish to be seen by the world. Therefore metaphorically, we wear different social masks among different groups of people and situations. The Shadow Self is an archetype that forms part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas, instincts, impulses, weaknesses, desires, perversions, and embarrassing fears. We are all born pure, like blank canvases. But at some point during our childhood development, we learn knowledge that teaches us to separate things into good and evil. In our cultural socialization process, we begin to sort out those traits within us that are acceptable to society (our Persona), and those that are unacceptable (which are later hidden

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