Masculine shame
Ayers, Mary Y
Masculine shame : from succubus to the eternal feminine - London/New York Routledge c2011 - xvii, 189p.; ill.; bibliog.; index
Part 1 - The birth of civilization and the evolution of the succubus. 1 The succubus, the evil eye and shame. 2 The historic unfolding of the image of the succubus. Part 2 - The image of the succubus in the writings of Freud and Jung. 3 The split beetween Freud and Jung. 4 Sigmund Freud's Medusa. 5 Siegfried to Salome: Jung's heroic journey. 6 The blinded eternal feminine. Part 3 - From the succubus as child-killing mother to the restoration of the eternal feminine. 7 The succubus of early infancy. 8 The evil female demon. Epilogue: Envisioning a return of the eternal feminine
'...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 howthe transformation of this image can be traced through Western history, mythology, and Judeo-Christian literature.
Paperback
9780415390392
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav)
Feminine principle
Succubus
Medusa
Good and evil
Demonology
Masculine principle
Masculine shame : from succubus to the eternal feminine - London/New York Routledge c2011 - xvii, 189p.; ill.; bibliog.; index
Part 1 - The birth of civilization and the evolution of the succubus. 1 The succubus, the evil eye and shame. 2 The historic unfolding of the image of the succubus. Part 2 - The image of the succubus in the writings of Freud and Jung. 3 The split beetween Freud and Jung. 4 Sigmund Freud's Medusa. 5 Siegfried to Salome: Jung's heroic journey. 6 The blinded eternal feminine. Part 3 - From the succubus as child-killing mother to the restoration of the eternal feminine. 7 The succubus of early infancy. 8 The evil female demon. Epilogue: Envisioning a return of the eternal feminine
'...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 howthe transformation of this image can be traced through Western history, mythology, and Judeo-Christian literature.
Paperback
9780415390392
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav)
Feminine principle
Succubus
Medusa
Good and evil
Demonology
Masculine principle