Insatiability and “inextinguishable vitality” of the Great Mother Archetype. The mystery of the “bearing womb”as a symbol of creative universalism
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The text introduces cultural and social exemplifications of the Great Mother
Archetype, which is in Jung’s conception the psychic principle of the mother,
the principle of something acting like mother, as a creative matrix and a mystery
or “bearing womb”. This interpretative perspective has served to distinguish
a premise, according to which the mother’s archetype may serve as a universal
symbol of creativity/creation, while being a rule beyond time and individual
being. In its desire, vitality and unrestricted vehemence within the mother
archetype is simultaneously one of the insatiable things, i. e. unsubordinated,
with unlimited and infinite fertility, as the “eternal presence” which cannot be
stopped within the cycle of transformation between destruction and resurrection.
The text analyses different heuristic consequences of the initial premise,
concentrated around ideas making more concrete problems of the Great Mother
Archetype with the categories of: symbolic death and renaissance, the imagination
completeness, the symbol of eternal matrix and visual forms of any
“being born”, all that is fertilizing, potentially maternal and thus dual.
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