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Carl Jung's work Psychological Types was translated into English by H G Bayness and published in 1923: That may have influenced the name but what is more likely to have influenced the concept was Jungian psychology's model of the shadow aspect of personality, that is, the unconscious or 'dark' side of personality. The Dark SideThe enormously successful Pink Floyd album Dark Side of the Moon was released in 1973, just when the Lucas's film was in preparation.

*Some live in the light side of God, and some in the dark side.

Bottomley) wrote about this as early as the 17th century in The light and dark sides of God, 1650: The radical theologian Jacob Bauthumley (a.k.a. In the Christian imagery of the mediaeval mind, the 'light' and dark' sides of God' were Heaven and the angels and evil, sin and the Devil respectively. Lucas had other cultural influences to draw on when creating the 'dark side' concept. He certainly outdid any cowboy villain in the black hat department. the bad guy, was the Dark Jedi Darth Vader.

In a parallel with early cowboy films, the film's principal antagonist, a.k.a.

The Star Wars series has often been compared with the classic good versus evil metaphors found in earlier Hollywood films. In that context, Lucas portrayed the 'dark side' concept as the evil aspect of the the underlying controlling power of the Universe - which he called 'The Force'.

The dark sideThe wide adoption of the term 'The Dark Side' certainly came about as a result of the plot line of the 1977 film Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, written and directed by George Lucas.

The evil and malevolent aspect of human personality or society, often referred to in a lighthearted or comic context.

The earliest documented usage dates back to the 17th century and refers to religious medieval concepts: