The Descent into Nigredo is a rigorous work of shadow alchemy and inner reconstruction. Through the symbolic process of Nigredo, Rafar Lafer examines the point at which familiar identities, social masks, and inherited emotional defenses begin to fail, opening the way for a deeper confrontation with the rejected material of the psyche.The book moves through the formation of the shadow, the Acceptable Self and the Exiled Self, projection, self-sabotage, body memory, emotiona...