Author: Vladisav Jovanović
Status: Preprint
Version: v1.0 (2026-03-11)
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18945256
Jung offered a topology of inner life—persona, shadow, projection, individuation—without needing to treat it as cosmic doctrine. In the digital age, that topology becomes mechanically sharper: coherence is cheap, contact is costly, and the self learns to stabilize optics. “Clean” living can function as coherence-maintenance that exports costs into the shadow. The result is hidden debt that later returns as forced contact: breakdown, scandal, scapegoating, rupture, or compulsive discharge. The paper treats shadow not as “bad parts,” but as unowned load: excluded truths, needs, anger, limits, and obligations that continue to generate consequences. It proposes falsifiers and audit tests for detecting exported maintenance and for restoring contact through revision, binding, repair, and irreversibility.
Jung; shadow; cybernetics; persona; coherence vs contact; exported maintenance; maintenance inflation; falsifiers; revision; binding; repair; irreversibility; witness/trace; scapegoating; forced contact; cheap coherence; shadow debt