After I watched the beautiful young Lynda Carter perform in her wonderful revealing Wonder Woman costume on the DVD version of the television series, it dawned of me that I had been projecting the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype in my psyche onto Lynda Carter.
However, what I say in my OEN article "Young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman" in the Wonder Woman television series and what I am saying here the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype in my psyche grows out of my own firsthand experience with the feminine Lover archetype in my psyche and my reflection of my experience as aided and guided by Robert L. Moore's Jungian account of the masculine and the feminine archetypes of maturity in the human psyche.
Arguably Wonder Woman as portrayed in the Wonder Woman television series, not only represents the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype in the human psyche, but also the optimal and positive form of the feminine Warrior/Knight archetype in the human psyche, and also the optimal and positive form of the feminine Magician/Shaman archetype in the human psyche.
But Wonder Woman in the Wonder Woman television series does NOT represent the optimal and positive form of the Queen archetype in the human psyche - because Wonder Woman is not portrayed as a queen, but as a princess (her mother is the Queen of the Amazons on Paradise Island).
But to spell out something else explicitly here, Wonder Woman in the Wonder Woman television series is not portrayed as being in a love relationship with any man. In a way, this may make her look more appealing to male viewers - as though she were available for a love relationship with them individually off camera, of course - or in their imaginations.
In any event, I recently received the Jungian analyst Dr. John A Desteian's 2021 book Coming Together - Coming Apart: The Play of Opposites in Love Relationships (Chiron Publications). He and his wife, Judith A. Savage, who is also a Jungian analyst, practice psychotherapy in their home offices in St. Paul, Minnesota. A member of the Bar of the State of Minnesota, John Desteian completed his analyst's dissertation at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Desteian's 2021 book appears to be a substantially revised and expanded version of his analyst's dissertation at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich.
At the website of Chiron Publications, we are told the following about Desteian's 2021 book: "Relationships are hard enough to negotiate without advice from outsiders who don't know you at all. This book is not a 'how-to' [book] aimed at attaining the ideal. Rather, it is a how-it-is [book], an exploration of how relationships are, how they develop, how they deteriorate, how they may end and how they may even revive."
That's quite an agenda - to say the least!
But now back to Moore's vision of optimal human psychological development.
When girls and women are sexually promiscuous, they are mainlining the Addicted Lover feminine Lover archetype of maturity in their psyches.
Female pornstars, over the legal age of 18, are also exhibitionistically mainlining the Addicted Lover feminine Lover archetype of maturity in their psyches.
Boys and men who routinely enjoy watching exhibitionistic female pornstars perform in their porn videos are mainlining the Addicted Lover feminine Lover archetype in their psyches.
Now, if you are mainlining the Addicted Lover "shadow" form of the feminine Lover archetype in your psyche, or the Addicted Lover "shadow" form of the masculine Lover archetype in your psyche, you will most likely have difficulty maintaining a love relationship with your partner over time.
Consequently, you should struggle to learn how to access the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype in your psyche, and the masculine Lover archetype in your psyche.
Now, according to Moore's Jungian theory of the archetypes of maturity in the human psyche, each of the eight archetypes of maturity in the human psyche (four masculine archetypes of maturity, and four feminine archetypes of maturity) has only one optimal and positive form, but two corresponding "shadow" forms.
One the of the two "shadow" forms of both the masculine Lover archetype and the feminine Lover archetype in the human psyche is designated the Addicted Lover "shadow" form.
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