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

away – our Shadow). How can you completely and wholeheartedly accept who you are if there are sides of yourself that you’re too afraid to explore? Your persona is unaware of your shadow-self, therefore again “the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.” Generally in history, the left has always been associated with dark, radical or sinister elements. And the right-handed path is what most of us understand to be the pursuit for positive things such as overcoming personal flaws and limitations.