"The Devouring Mother is a familiar archetypal image and clinical reality in the world of depth psychology. Jung describes the mother devoured personality in its neurotic form…" ~Murray Stein, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Myth & Psychology, p. 1
"Erich Neumann in his classic works, The Origins and History of Consciousness and The Great Mother, adds further detail using a wealth of mythological material. In its most extreme forms, it manifests as endogenous psychosis, schizophrenia, and manic-depression." ~Murray Stein
"Not quite so familiar is the archetypal image and psychological reality of the Devouring Father. Here, one might speak of its most extreme effect as a type of social psychosis, a state of possession in which the conventional world so dominates the #ego that individuality…
"…disappears and only a kind of false self, or #persona, remains evident. This is a hazard encountered in the second stage of the individuation process, which I have discussed elsewhere as 'the adapting/adjusting stage of individuation.'" ~Murray Stein, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
"If, at one pole of the archetypal father image, he is guardian of his children & a mighty fortress against the threats of the outside world, at the other pole he is devourer of his children's spirits through his rigid insistence on conventional thinking, feeling, & behavior."
"The psychological effect of this negative side of the #father archetype is a stage of ego-consciousness that is tied, bound, and swallowed up in convention & habit and in slavish attention to duty as defined by prevailing collective norms." ~Murray Stein, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
"A gastric flood of values, perspectives, patterns, tastes, dispositions, attitudes, and opinions from the prevailing culture digest away all traces of individual experience and spontaneous reaction." ~Murray Stein, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Myth & Psychology, p. 2
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