But as a physician and psychiatrist, he intentionally employed the more mundane, banal, less esoteric or metaphysical, and therefore more rational, terminology of "the shadow" and "the unconscious" instead of the traditional, religious language of god, devil, daimon, or mana. As a parson’s son, Jung was steeped in the Protestant mythos, digested the rich symbolism of Catholicism, and studied the other great religious and philosophical systems. Especially concerned with those pathological mental states historically known as "demonic possession," Jung’s psychological construct of the shadow corresponds to yet differs fundamentally from the idea of the Devil or Satan in theology.
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