Breaking Dependency on the Symbolic Mother

00:00 - Rituals of Transition and the Rite of Passage 00:36 - Initiation Rituals and the Secrets of the Tribe 01:20 - The Role of Initiation in Becoming a Man in Primitive Societies 01:55 - Examples of Societies Lacking Rite of Passage and Their Consequences 02:33 - The Balance Between Men and Women in Matriarchal Societies 03:44 - The Devouring Mother and Its Psychological Influence 04:53 - Overprotective Mothers and the Effects on Children’s Independence 05:15 - The Dangers of Women Identifying with Men’s Projections (The Anima) 05:56 - The Destructive Power of Acting Out the Anima, Like Marilyn Monroe 07:05 - The Loneliness of Women Who Play the Anima Figure 08:00 - The Disillusionment of Marrying an Anima Figure 08:14 - The Impact of a Mother Complex on a Man’s Relationships 09:23 - The Myth of Rapunzel and the Mother Complex 09:53 - The Devouring Mother in Institutions and Corporations 10:33 - Institutions as “Alma Mater” and the Projection of the Mother Archetype 11:27 - The Breakdown of Mother-Relatedness in Modern Society 12:01 - The Need for Change in Response to Nuclear War and Pollution 12:51 - The Emergence of a New Collective Spirit (Zeitgeist) 13:19 - Historical Shifts in Collective Consciousness, from Medieval to Renaissance 14:22 - The Current Change of Our Time and Collective Anxiety 14:57 - The Tension of Opposites in the Modern Age 15:36 - The Division of Jupiter and Saturn (Good and Evil) in Political and Human Psyche