The protest impulse of the 60s posited a malevolent Father, the harbinger of a reality principle that (supposedly) cruelly and arbitrarily denies the 'right' to total enjoyment. This Father has unlimited access to resources, bu he selfishly - and senselessly - hoards them. Yet it is not capitalism but protest itself which depends upon this figuration of the Father.

• capitalism
• projection
• protest
• father image
• let go of the rope

The hero is not creative in the sense that he decorates embellishes the existing canon, although his creativeness may also manifest itself in shaping and transforming the archetypal contents of his age.  The true hero is one who brings the new and shatters the fabric of old values, namely the father-dragon which, backed by the whole weight of tradition and the power of the collective, ever strives to obstruct the birth of the new.

• the hero
• archetypes
• creation
• destruction
• father image
• power
• collective
• tradition
• birth

In this [the hero's] conflict the 'inner voice,' the command of the transpersonal father or father archetype who wants the world to change, collides with the personal father who speaks for the old law.  We know this conflict best from the Bible story of Jehovah's command to Abraham: 'Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee' (Genesis 12:1), which the midrash interprets as meaning that Abraham is to destroy the gods of his father.  The message of Jesus is only an extension of the same conflict and it repeats itself in every revolution.  Whether the new picture of God and the world conflicts with an old picture, or with the personal father, is unimportant, for the father always represents the old order and hence also the old picture current in his cultural canon.

• the hero
• father image
• god
• meaning
• will
• change
• cultural canon
• law
• jesus
• revolution
• conflict
• gods

On the other hand, besides the archetypal image of the father, the personal father image also has a significance, though it is conditioned less by his individual person than by the character of the culture and the changing cultural values which he represents.  There is a broad resemblance between the mother figures of primitive, classical, medieval, and modern times; they remain embedded in nature.  But the father figure changes with the culture he represents.

• father image
• mother image
• nature
• society
• culture
• character
• other