Archetypes are recurrent elements of the unconscious, predispositions of the human psyche that correspond to emotional, behavioral and cognitive patterns, these models determine how we deal with feelings, concerns and symbols, in addition, they play different roles and have a dreamlike and universal character. In this article, we will discuss the female archetype and its essence, Transformational Wrath.
To begin with, we must know that such elements have been repeated several times in myths, legends, religions, dreams and art throughout history, they are collective symbolic models through which a series of experiences shared by all are expressed.
- They develop in the cultural environment.
- Not in the individual.
- And are partially inherited.
- We express such archetypes through emotional reactions.
- In our behavior and in our projections towards others.
- Even if we are not even aware of having activated them.
- Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung who proposed this construction in his book “Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious”.
“An innate tendency to generate images with an intense emotional burden expressing the relational primacy of human life. -Carl Jung-
In the 1980s, psychiatrist and analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen broke with the rigid patterns of women who had psychoanalytic approaches, with her book “The Goddess of Every Woman. “Her work radically transformed female psychology by discovering the forgotten archetypes of goddesses recovered from universality. Mythology.
Among the wide range of archetypal goddesses, some of them, especially those related to wisdom, seem to be active in us as we reach middle age. Of all these goddesses, two of them are my favorites. That’s what I’m going to talk about in this article.
I’m sure many of you will recognize this powerful archetype that is already active in your psyche. It seems that women become more radical against injustices as they age and, in a way, much wiser.
The goddesses of transformative anger are women capable of expressing their anger, neither deny it, nor suppress it, nor direct it against themselves, are fierce, protective and savage instinctive goddesses, but increasingly able to transform into strong and serene beings.
These two deities were invited to fight the demons of the world and overcome the forces of evil when no other deity could face them.
They were warrior goddesses who, on the battlefield, tip the balance between life and death. In both cases, there is an internal battle between divine and demonic nature. Sekhmet nearly destroyed the human race and Khali returned from battle with the attached demons. to her skirt.
Both seem terrifying and can create life, preserve it, and destroy it. They know from experience the horrors of the world and are ferocious in defending a cause. They are the protectors of values, determined to change things for the better.
The archetype of the goddesses of transformative anger symbolizes outrage and anger at unjust personal or social situations; represents the state of anger at intolerance and fury at indifference to the suffering of all beings.
It is in middle age that women recognize many of these situations and react by hitting the table and saying: Enough!When we’re ready to do something to change, the archetype is activated on us.
The archetypal energies of Transforming Wrath are the representation of fierce female compassion, angry women protesting the unacceptable, it is a break with the deviation of the gaze, with conformity with things, this is the turning point we are going through when we know that things cannot go on like this.
Transforming Wrath is a very powerful archetype, so you need to know how to detect and control it when it’s up and running, once activated, it provides energy that can be devastating to those around us and, worse, to ourselves.
Anger must be balanced with wisdom in order for it to turn into transformative anger and work in the right direction. It is not about repressing our anger, or hiding or denying it, as we have been taught to do since we were little. But it has to be balanced.
The wisdom of experience gives us sufficient knowledge to contain the first impulse to return the insult. Eye for an eye leads us to a succession of violence and makes us hostile and obsessive.
It is necessary to channel anger and turn it into organized and judicifully directed actions to change an event, situation or injustice, it is about getting to work and developing a plan that leads us to our goal, without this wisdom anger becomes anger.
Transforming Wrath’s goal is to lead angry hearts to improve their own lives and create a better and fairer world.