By the return of the goddess in the human psyche, Whitmont means the four feminine archetypes of maturity and their accompanying eight bipolar "shadow" forms.
Ah, but where, exactly, are the four feminine archetypes of maturity and their accompanying eight "shadow" forms supposedly "returning" from? Haven't they been in the human psyche all along? Yes, indeed, they have been in the human psyche all along. Thus, when Whitmont refers to their supposed return, he is speaking figuratively.
Figuratively speaking, the four archetypes of maturity and their accompanying eight "shadow" forms have been distanced in the human psyche from ego-consciousness during the centuries of the print culture that emerged in our Western cultural history after the Gutenberg printing press emerged in Europe in the mid-1450s.
Thus, what Whitmont refers to as the return of the goddess in the human psyche involves the return of the four feminine archetypes of maturity and their eight accompanying "shadow" forms in drawing closer to interacting within the human psyche with ego-consciousness.
Now, the psychodynamic in stage (7) of the eight stages of consciousness that Neumann delineates in his book The Origins and History of Consciousness involves the "liberation of the ego from endogamous kinship libido" (in Ong's wording) - that is, the liberation of libido from being "married within" the psyche to the image of the mother (or mother-figure) and also the liberation of libido from being "married within" the psyche to the image of the father (or father-figure).
Now, the liberation of libido from being "married within" the person's psyche to the person's father (or father figure) facilitates the person's transition into stage (8) - and thus into learning how to access the optimal and positive forms of the four masculine archetypes in the person's psyche.
Now, as I have mentioned above, my infatuation with the beautiful body of young Lynda Carter in the fall of 2024 was accompanied by my ten-week experience of feeling mildly euphoric - which ended shortly before the presidential election on November 5, 2024. Subsequently, I have come to interpret my ten-week experience of feeling mildly euphoric as involving the liberation of my ego-consciousness from endogamous kinship libido - that is, the liberation of libido in my psyche from being "married within," figuratively speaking, to the image of my mother, on the one hand, and, on the other, to the image of my father. This double liberation of libido in my psyche from the images of my mother and father, respectively, freed up my inner access to the optimal forms of the four feminine archetypes of maturity, on the one hand, and, on the other, to the optimal forms of the four masculine archetypes of maturity.
The freeing up of libido in my psyche enabled me at long last, at the age of 80, to learn how to access the optimal and positive form of the masculine Lover archetype - after a lifetime of being locked into one or the other of the two bipolar "shadow" forms of the masculine Lover archetype in my psyche. I have discussed my new-found access to the optimal and positive form of the masculine Lover archetype in my psyche in my deeply personal OEN article "Some Personal Reflections About Porn" (dated January 2, 2025), mentioned above.
Now, Trump and his many American supporters today are misogynists. As a result of being misogynists, Trump and his many American supporters today, have not yet experienced stage (7) of the eight stages of consciousness that Neumann delineates in his book.
Also as a result of being misogynists, Trump and his many American supporters today, have not yet experienced what Whitmont refers to as the return of the goddess in their psyches.
Thus, Trump and his many American supporters still need to complete stage (6) before they are ready to make the transit in their psyches into stage (7) of the eight stages of consciousness that Neumann delineates in his book The Origins and History of Consciousness.
Now, the OEN founder Rob Kall is fond of the imagery of bottom-up versus top-down. Trump 2.0 represents the spirit of top-down rule. The imagery of bottom-up suggests that the effective opposition to Trump 2.0 must somehow emerge from the bottom up.
Unfortunately for the prospect of bottom-up resistance to Trump 2.0, Trump won the popular vote decisively in the presidential election on November 5, 2024. Thus far, I've not yet seen any significant buyer's remorse from our fellow Americans who voted for trump in 2024.
Also unfortunately, no Democrat has yet emerged to spearhead the bottom-up resistance to Trump 2.0.
More recently, Fareed Zakaria has editorialized to HBO host Bill Maher about cities and states run by Democrats: See "CNN's Zakaria: Democrat[ic] Cities and States Are Terribly Run. You Pay the Highest Taxes and Get Nothing for It" (dated March 3, 2025; posted at RealClearPolitics by Ian Schwartz).
Now, the present essay was written before President Trump delivered his bombastic State of the Union address to Congress on the evening of Tuesday, March 4, 2025. NYT columnist Maureen Dowd nicely captured the spirit of his bombastic address in her column titled "The State of Himself" in The New York Times (dated March 5, 2025). In it, Dowd says, "The thrust of Trump's speech was, of course, to glorify himself, to claim sanctification bestowed on him by God when he escaped assassination."
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