Carl Jung: The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the shadow descends into hell and becomes the devil. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the shadow descends into hell and becomes the devil. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When one tries desperately to be good and wonderful and perfect, then all the more the shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive. People cannot see that; they are always striving to be marvellous, and then they discover that terrible destructive things happen which they cannot understand, and …