Feminine archetypes?
Feb. 20th, 2007 05:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poltr1In an earlier post, I talked about the Jungian masculine archetypes -- lover, warrior, magician, king. I'd imagine that they could map over to their feminine counterparts -- lover, warrior, magician, queen.
I've been trying to wrap my brain around how they'd map into maiden, warrior, mother, crone -- which I remember hearing from a song. (It was probably a filk song. That was the last line of the chorus. Can someone name that tune?)
Or maybe there's a different set of archetypes altogether, one that I have no knowledge of or exposure to.
And it's quite possible that I just can't comprehend this because I have a Y chromosome, among other things. :-P
I've been trying to wrap my brain around how they'd map into maiden, warrior, mother, crone -- which I remember hearing from a song. (It was probably a filk song. That was the last line of the chorus. Can someone name that tune?)
Or maybe there's a different set of archetypes altogether, one that I have no knowledge of or exposure to.
And it's quite possible that I just can't comprehend this because I have a Y chromosome, among other things. :-P
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Date: 2007-02-21 02:19 am (UTC)***Blink***
Date: 2007-02-21 02:45 am (UTC)No poking the hormonal chick with a sharp stick?
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Date: 2007-02-21 03:16 am (UTC)No sharp stick, but I have a leather flogger. >;-)
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Date: 2007-02-21 04:50 am (UTC)First off, I would suggest getting Joseph Campell's original "Myth" series, perhaps on tape, it's good for a commute.
And secondly, Dad has the rest of my fershluggin Men's archetype library in his room and I can't get in there till morning (I'm thinking you don't want my old audio of Women Who Run With the Wildebeasts and such, cos that's in the garage somewhere). Bugger. But if he's done with it, I can loan it to you. Tells me it's BEEN 10 years since Archetypes and I've been studying...what??? Oh hell. The origins of Christian theology. In Latin, Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew, emphasis on the origins of Apocalyptic thought. Also, the History of Early American Sprituality, including slave traditions, Quakers, and Mormons.
Don't ask.
The only one I still in my room is the one about Campell's archetypes as used in the "Sandman" series. Only useful if you've read a) a lot of Campell and b) a LOOOOT of Sandman.
But yeah, the Origin of Myth is a good place to start.
And heck, reading The Complete Sandman with a copy of Bullfinch's Mythology as a reference isn't bad either.
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Date: 2007-02-21 04:09 pm (UTC)Sandman? As in Neil Gaiman? That's on my "maybe someday I'll get around to reading it" list, right next to Girl Genius.
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