ABSTRACT
Jung argues that human beings can never know when evil may be necessary to produce good; what at first appears to be evil may later prove to have been a positive force. Jung strongly criticizes the Christian idea of the privatio boni, which is the notion that evil is the absence of good and only has a relative existence. Jung's concept of the shadow is broad, with a range of meanings. Neumann says that only a person who is loyal to the values of the old ethic is in a position to live the new ethic. The notion of the dark side of God has other doctrinal implications, for example in relation to the notion of a Trinitarian God. It is axiomatic in Jungian psychology that myths and fairy tales reveal both the dynamics of the psyche and a response to typical human situations, and indeed these stories offer a range of suggestions about coping with evil.
