Jung is not describing a rescue here — he is describing a narrowing. The differentiated function consumes libido the way fire consumes oxygen in a sealed room: the more expertly it burns, the less remains, and the inner disunity that follows is not incidental but structural. Something that has been doing all the carrying eventually cannot carry.

What makes the passage difficult is the sentence most readers want to skip. The symbol is so tangled with the dangerous and menacing aspect of the unconscious that it is easily mistaken for it — or its arrival actually calls forth destruction. This is not a caveat. It is the central claim. If you have been waiting for a saving symbol in the way a patient waits for a diagnosis that will explain and resolve everything, you are already in the wrong posture. The symbol does not arrive as clarity. It arrives alongside what feels like collapse, or what in retrospect will have been collapse.

The word "destined" rewards attention: *das Symbol, das den Konflikt lösen soll* — the symbol that is to resolve the conflict, carrying the future tense of something not yet accomplished. Jung is marking duration, not promise. The symbol develops while the disunity multiplies. These are simultaneous, not sequential. Redemption is not the arc; endurance under inundation is the condition in which the symbol becomes visible at all.