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Sylvia Brinton Perera The Scapegoat Complex : Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt Studies in Jungian PsychologyThe term Scapegoat is applied to individuals and groups who are accused of causing misfortune. Scapegoating  means finding those who can be identified with evil, blamed for it, and cast out from the family or the community in order to leave the remaining members with a feeling of guiltlessness.Psychologically, scapegoating  is a form of denying the shadow- by proyecting it onto others, Shadow here refers to attitudes, behavior and emotions that do not conforms with ego ideals….. instead of being recognized as component’s of one ´s own humanity.This hard-hitting book examines many aspects of scapegoat psychology as is manifests in modern men and women, with a wealth of examples from the author’s analytic practice. It also looks behind the scapegoat complex to the underlying archetypal pattern as it appears in mythology. ..