Masculine Shame : From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine.
This book explores the idea that the image of the succubus, a demonic female creature said to emasculate men and murder mothers and infants, has been created out of the masculine projection of shame and looks at how the transformation of this image can be traced through Western history, mythology, a...
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Masculine Shame; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: The birth of civilization and the evolution of the succubus; Chapter 1 The succubus, the evil eye and shame; Queen of the succubi; Chapter 2 The historic unfolding of the image of the succubus; The birth of civilization; The succubus takes hold; PART II: The image of the succubus in the writings of Freud and Jung; Chapter 3 The split between Freud and Jung; Historical background; Chapter 4 Sigmund Freud's Medusa; Freud's repudiation of the mother; Narcissism; Freud's mother; Freud's act of matricide.
- The feminine in Freud's theoriesChapter 5 Siegfried to Salome: Jung's heroic journey; The psychological birth of Jung: the Siegfried complex; Salome and Jung's anima; Jung's act of matricide; The restoration of Salome's vision; Jung's ascent; Chapter 6 The blinded eternal feminine; The social construction of the patriarchal hero; The blinding of the maternal feminine; Part III: From the succubus as child-killing mother to the restoration of the eternal feminine; Chapter 7 The succubus of early infancy; Recognition; Recognition of the mother; The shift from object relations to object usage.
- Matricide and the absence of recognitionChapter 8 The evil female demon; Evil and masculine shame; The evil female demon; The death of the ego and the transformation of evil into shame; Archetypal images for the transformation of shame; Epilogue: Envisioning a return of the eternal feminine; The Revenge of Gaia; Bibliography; Index.