Exploring the Dark-This is an explanation of Jung’s theory by Alan Watts

When you pick out an enemy, whoever that may be, and say there is the darkness, it is not in me, and therefore because the darkness is not in me I am justified, in annihilating the enemy weather it be with atom bombs or gas chambers or Covid Camps. You make another human being “other”. But to the degree that a person becomes conscious that the evil is as much in himself as in the other, to this same degree he is not likely to project it on to some scapegoat, and commit the most criminal acts of violence upon other people. You learn to respect yourself, you then respect others. Knowing each person is a unique, individual world, never to be repeated. Now this is to my mind the primary thing that Jung saw, that in order to admit and really accept and understand the evil in oneself, one had to be able to do it without being an enemy to it. As he put it, you had to accept your own dark side, and he had this preeminently in his own character. This is an explanation of Jung’s theory by Alan Watts.