Hall Freud Jung in front of Clark 1909.
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Duluth, Minnesota (OpEdNews) September 17, 2024: In my OEN article "Young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman" (dated September 3, 2024), I discussed the beautiful young Lynda Carter's role as Diana Prince/ Wonder Woman in the Wonder Woman television series (1976-1979; 59 episodes):
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.
Now, my discussion of the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype in the human psyche and of the optimal and positive form of the masculine Lover archetype in the human psyche is, of course, indebted to the work of the late Jungian analyst and theorist Robert L. Moore (1942-2016; Ph.D. in psychology and religion, University of Chicago, 1975) of the Chicago Theological Seminary. Moore co-authored with Douglas Gillette the following books:
(1) the accessible overview book King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (HarperSanFrancisco/ HarperCollins);
(2) The King Within: Accessing the King [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1992a);
(3) The Warrior Within: Accessing the Knight [Archetype] Within the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1992b);
(4) The Magician Within: Accessing the Shaman [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1993a);
(5) The Lover Within: Accessing the Lover [Archetype] in the Male Psyche (William Morrow, 1993b);
(6) The King Within: Accessing the King [Archetype] in the Male Psyche, revised and expanded second edition (Explorations Press, 2007).
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 four masculine and the four 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 she 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.
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