Lady Gaga may not make you think about Jungian theory, but her latest album, "Mayhem," is a master class on accepting your shadow self on your road to self-acceptance.

Carl Jung is a respected voice in the psychiatry ... that they consist of two opposing persons; the ego and the shadow. C.G. Jung's quotes help define life as a complex collection of opposites.

This all leads me to the conclusion that Lady Gaga is invoking Carl Jung’s idea of the shadow self and that, ultimately, Mayhem is about self-acceptance. Hear me out. the repressed, often ...