Which makes me wonder, now that I put it that way, whether there is a kind of purity in some would-be artists that prevents them, regardless of their technical mastery, from giving expression to the more menacing aspects of their unconscious, even if, in terms of their interpersonal relations and their emotional sophistication, they have been able to achieve the sort of ego integration (of the ‘shadow’ with the ‘light,’ as Jung might have described it) that is characteristic of a tranquil adult psychology.