How Does a Person Turn into Voldemort?

A loving parent accepts the whole child — without splitting their soul apart through harsh criticism.

If a child feels rejected emotionally when growing up, they will keep rejecting themselves as an adult. There is a hidden pleasure in self-castigation. When you condemn yourself, you symbolically reject the part of you that you don’t want to see.

What pleasure do we get out of it?

By judging ourselves, we, like Voldemort, split our souls into several pie…