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Right vs. Left Culture Warriors in the U.S. (REVIEW ESSAY)

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(1) the Tyrant Usurper (see esp. pages 99-107);

(2) the Weakling Abdicator (see esp. pages 109-114).

Moore posits that feminine counterpart to the King archetype in all human psyches is the Queen archetype in all human psyches, which is structure along similar line - with two "shadow" forms and one optimal form.

By virtue of the ascendancy in the rhetoric of the culture warriors of both the right and the left, I want to say that their corruption (in Bergoglio's terminology) also includes their mainlining the Tyrant Usurper "shadow" form of the King or Queen archetype of maturity in their psyches.

Moore and Gillette discuss the masculine Magician/Shaman archetype of maturity most extensively in their self-help book The Magician Within: Accessing the Shaman [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (New York: William Morrow, 1993a). Moore and Gillette refer to the two "shadow" forms of the masculine Magician/Shaman archetype as:

(1) the Master of Denial: The Innocent One (see esp. pages 153-162);

(2) The Trickster: The Detached Manipulator (see esp. pages 163-175).

Moore posits that the feminine counterpart to the masculine Magician/Shaman archetype in all human psyches is the feminine Magician/Shaman archetype in all human psyches.

Moore and Gillette discuss the masculine Lover archetype of maturity most extensively in their self-help book The Lover Within: Accessing the Lover [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (New York: William Morrow, 1993b). Moore and Gillette refer to the two "shadow" forms of the masculine Lover archetype in all human psyches as:

(1) The Impotent Lover: Lost in the Wasteland (see esp. pages 159-172);

(2) the Addict Lover: Possessed by the Lover Within (see esp. pages 173-187).

Moore posits that the feminine counterpart to the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in all human psyches is the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in all human psyches.

Moore and Gillette have also written a streamlined version of the masculine archetypes of maturity in their self-help book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1990).

In conclusion, it strikes me as safe to say that the culture warriors of both the right and the left in the United States are not typically accessing any of the eight optimal forms of the masculine and feminine archetypes of maturity that Moore posits. In Bergoglio's terminology, they are corrupt; in Moore's terminology, they are dominated by "shadow" forms of the archetypes of maturity in all human psyches.

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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