Carl Jung’s Scariest Book

A large chapter is dedicated to the fish symbolism of the self, in which a fish may be caught in the deep sea and incorporated into the human body. The sea represents the unconscious and the unknown, and the fishing is the symbol for the self and was for a long time a symbol for Christ. It also represents a tradition of “integrating” Christ into on... See more

This dark side, however, is not purely negative. It’s also a source of insight, power, creativity, and more. While this was recognized in Gnosticism, Christianity rejected this “inferior” aspect of the personality and externalized it into the Antichrist.