Carl Jung on Creativity

I really relate to the ideas presented in the following passage of Carl Jung's:

"...There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire. It is as though each of us were endowed at birth with a certain capital of energy. The strongest force in our make-up will seize and all but monopolize this energy, leaving so little over that nothing of value can come of it. In this way the creative force can drain the human impulses to such a degree that the personal ego must develop all sorts of bad qualities...in order to maintain the spark of life and to keep itself from being wholly bereft...[these negatives] of artists resembles that of illegitimate or neglected children who from their tenderest years must protect themselves from the destructive influence of people who have no love to give them--who develop bad qualities for that very purpose and later maintain an invincible egocentrism by remaining all their lives infantile and helpless or by actively offending against the moral code or the law."

(-Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 1933.)

I identify with that idea of the creative self protecting itself; of striking out against people and situations which inhibit my creative self or monopolize my time. Even acting out in subconscious ways; The part of the self that seeks to create is another part of one's self with it's own needs which it will seek out in various ways. Has I said, I find this moving because it's so very true for myself. Read this article where I found the quote: How Art Creates the Artist.