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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barone-Chapman, Maryann

Titel

Creation and Destruction

Ist Teil von

• Personal and Cultural Shadows of Late Motherhood, 2020, p.100-108

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Generations of Jungians have accepted C. G. Jung’s ideas from the first half of the twentieth century, privileging the male to develop a relationship with the archetype of the feminine, anima, while at the same time criticizing the female who was developing a relationship to her inner masculine, the animus. The Lilith myth, as told in the Hebrew creation myth in the Alphabet of Ben Sira lends itself to this inquiry. The story of this first woman, sometimes called ‘the first Eve’ to Adam, is relevant to this exploration, as the crux of the myth was meant to discourage the female who would be the male’s equal. Barbara Koltuv finds in Lilith and her successor Eve, two sides of the feminine, one instinctual and the other destructive, but both necessary for spiritual and psychological integrity. Destruction plays a crucial part between Adam and Lilith, who were both created out of the same earth, and therefore created equal in value.