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Masculine Shame: From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine

Preface I The birth of civilization and the evolution of the succubus The succubus, the evil eye and shame Queen of the succubi The historic unfolding of the image of the succubus The birth of civilization The succubus takes hold The succubus in Ancient Greece The succubus in the Judeo-Christian world Thesuccubus today II The image of the succubus in the writings of Freud and Jung The split between Freud and Jung Historical background Sigmund Freud's Medusa Freud's repudiation of the mother The Oedipus Complex Two types of castration anxiety Medusa The eyes of shame and Oedipus the King Freud's shame and Oedipus Narcissism Freud's mother Pegasus Freud's maternal attachment Freud's act of matricide "Close the eyes"The feminine in Freud's theories The feminine in Freud's later life Siegfried to Salome: Jung's heroic journey The psychological birth of Jung: the Siegfried complex Sabina Spielrein Salome and Jung's anima The "talented psychopath”Jung's act of matricide Jung's mother The restoration of Salome's vision The serpent Descent The above and the below Christ and sacrifice Baptism Christ and Mithras Jung's ascent Mandalas Jung and the maternal feminine The blinded eternal feminine The social construction of the patriarchal hero The heroic in man The hero and shame The weakening of the hero Shame and the eyes The blinding of the maternal feminine The victim The hero and the mother III From the succubus as child-killing mother to the restoration of the eternal feminine The succubus of early infancy Recognition Mother-infant attachment and recognition Masculine emotional shaping and the shame-based hardening process Recognition of the mother Separation between mother and infant The shift from object relations to object usage Separation and omnipotence Recognition and the other Matricide and the absence of recognition The projection of shame The evil female demon Evil and masculine shame The ego Enslavement of the ego The evil female demon Lilith Evil and destruction The death of the ego and the transformation of evil into shame The nature of death The phallus Loss of omnipotence and sacrifice De-mystification of the phallus Dissolution of the ego Emergence Lilith and transcendence Archetypal images for the transformation of shame The story of Jesus Christ Sacrifice and depth psychology Shame and depth psychology Epilogue. Envisioning a return of the eternal feminine The Revenge of Gaia (Lovelock, 2000, 2006)Global warming A world in transition Bibliography

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From the succubus as child-killing mother to the restoration of the eternal feminine
Who dares misery love, And hug the form of death. Dance in destruction’s dance To him the Mother comes. (Vivekananda) Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pitch and moment With this...
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The blinded eternal feminine
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Evil and masculine shame
Evil and the repression of shame are intertwined in their need for invisibility. The invisibility of evil is the very reason it can take hold in the blindness of shame, and in the theater of illusion that follows the victim is lost. Evil grounded in the denial of shame is the kind of selfishness and...
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