The Great Mother vs. the Terrible Mother: the dual nature of the Jungian archetype.

That flowers-and-Hallmark-card festival of “why don’t you call more often?” guilt we so lovingly refer to as Mother’s Day has just passed, so I thought it topical to dedicate a post to mother archetypes. It goes without saying that, as long as there’s been people, there’s been mothers. Some of the earliest known artifacts of … Continue reading The Great Mother vs. the Terrible Mother: the dual nature of the Jungian archetype.