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ARCHETYPAL FEMININE???
elementary:
pos=nourishing, magna, earth mother, feeding
neg=smother mother, death goddess, witches, mediums,seers,
queens of the underworld,"the
Devouring mother"
transformative: pos=male protagonist's platonic ideal, sophia, impossibly
good, can only be idolized not
approached, the idealized female
neg=the temptrest, seductive female, beautiful, 'devil in a red dress', draws you in and destroys
your life, 'the femme fatale', the sirens
steatopygic- big butt
sarcophagi-coffin
Freud vs. Jung: demons
Freud says get rid of our demons
Jung says confront our demons
:individuation-psychological process where you confront the negative elements in your subconscious
to achieve psychological wholeness
Calisto: (pg 164) values her virginity, zues wants her, changes himself into virgin
goddess Diana and rapes her, nine months later has baby, juno(hera) wants revenge, changes Calisto into bear, 15 years later
Arcas(Calisto's son) is hunting and comes upon a bear ( his mom), but Jove(zeus) intervenes and puts them into the sky
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