Understanding Good & Evil | Dear Alexander #036
Carl Jung believed the pathway to completion as a human is through the ‘embodiment of the monster’ — the discovery of ‘the shadow’. Jung didn’t believe you could be a good person until you realised your capacity for malevolence and evil. Once this is understood, then it must be brought under control.
There are typically two types of people…
Person A
A “good person” whose naive to their capacity to perpetrate malevolence.