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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
卷 68, 期 5, 页码 828-848出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5922.12953
关键词
archetypal; complex; developmental; gender; myth; Oedipal; sexuality
This article investigates the myths of Myrrha, Lot and his wife, and Demeter-Persephone to reveal the insights and complexities of feminine development by analyzing the archetypal forces at play and the human affairs that interfere.
In the manner of Oedipus Rex, the myth of Myrrha-a story about a daughter's initiation of sex with her father-promises to divulge insights about feminine development. Given parallels between these two myths, the author asks why Jung identified Electra rather than Myrrha as the feminine counterpart to Oedipus, and revisits Freud's and Jung's differing interpretations of the incest theme in personality development. To break open the metaphor of Myrrha's incest, the author analyzes a similar account of incest in the Old Testament story of Lot and his wife and finds that they share a theme of female bitterness related to wounding of the mother and its arresting effect on the daughter's maturation. The article then considers the Demeter-Persephone myth, a tale not of incest but rape in Persephone's initiation into womanhood. In contrast to Myrrha, Persephone's development unfolds with strong maternal support tempered by the opposing claims on her by the masculine. The article draws these stories together to illuminate the archetypal forces that drive feminine development as well as the human affairs that resist and complicate them. The article concludes with a case study of a client whose developmental stuckness follows the contours of the Myrrha myth.
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