Jungian

The Nude Body in Art: Charting the Shadowy Beginnings of Art by Sam Abelow

In antiquities, there was a social complex between the promiscuity, child-sacrifice, in relation to the great mother archetype, as a totality that induced tensions with various forming cultures and their cults. The hero, as an early masculine identity and myth, is the typology that resists the dissolving effects of the maternal unconscious. The development of moral structures and social codes is strengthened by a concentration on the hero archetype, representing the masculine in the struggle against the maternal unconscious.

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