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Evil Eve and the Shadow Woman Archetypes
Every time I see Star Trek the next Generation film with the story
about the Borg Queen capturing Data, and tempting him with the things he wishes
for, I find my mind wondering to stories I've heard concerning the negative
Jungian Archetypes; the women who destroy men, the women that hold some kind
of power over man, and yet always in the end destroying them.
The Borg Queen is the Archetypal "Evil Eve", in Biblical mythology,
Eve is the perfect woman, she looks up to Adam, but there is another myth
in other texts of the Bible about a "first woman" one before Eve, her name
was Lilith, and she was not submissive to Adam, and did not "obey" his
demands, and thus supposedly was turned into an evil creature with bat wings
to seduce men in their sleep and to kill children at their birth, that is
according to Jewish Biblical mythology... although I don't know this entire
story first hand.
In Sci-fi films and stories These "Evil Eves" lurk everywhere, From "Startrek"
to "Species". These particular woman are the creation of a male dominated
imagination. They are just stereotypical "bad girls" who seem to get what
they want, and men seem to suffer for it.
They are of course as in all fictions over dramatized, and dangerous creatures
with an actual conscious desire for the downfall of all men.
But in our dreams, particularly mens dreams, the "subcubus" the "vampire queen"
the ones who make men lose their minds by playing upon their desire.
These shadow women are the inverse of the goddess/ or of the "Virgin Mary"
or "Eve" in Biblical mythology, perhaps with all things, every positive must
have a "negative" so we never underestimate the "good" and pure in our lives...
Yet there are positive attributes to the "Evil Eves"; they are in control
of their self-ness, highly intellectual and they are not "submissive" and
are considered very sexual creatures by nature. (Remember this is a stereotype/archetype
and I am trying to look into the positive aspects of the "shadow woman")
What about the "Shadow Man"? The bestial essence of man as the thinking
animal, is the idea of the shadow man. In Greco-Roman myth he is the wildness
of the Faun, from which our modern mythologies directly take the idea of the
form of what we call "The Devil", someone materialistically, and sensually
in touch with that flesh side of being an animal.
But unlike, the "Shadow Woman", Shadow Man, is not really as much a creature
of intellect as he is a creature madness and lack of control. He is the thief,
the drunkard, the madman and the one who takes what he wants, when he wants
and how he wants.
What are the positive aspects of such a stereotype such as this? Well if you
look into what our society as a whole sees what men should be like, then you
realize that the self-determination and the divine madness often make these
beasts sound typically more of a "Rock Star" or "Pop Idol" of our times rather
than the "Devil" and "Faun" of the days of old.
Sadly we see more positives in these stereotypes than we see in the "Evil
Eves", perhaps due to the way we in our culture seem to be... and the aspects
we admire most.
Dorian is an artist from Sweden. Dorians
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