In other words, when we project the King archetype onto somebody, we thereby enlist that person as a magical helper in our lives. Because
As long as magical helpers are respectful of us and responsible and ethical in their relationships with us, they may play constructive roles in our lives until we are ready to stop projecting the King archetype and/or Queen archetype and instead access the power of the King archetype and the Queen archetype in our lives.
In any event, Moore's observation about giving away our power dovetails with Fromm's basic concern about the authoritarian character -- that people who have the authoritarian character will give away their power to people who are not trustworthy -- and to movements that are not trustworthy such as fascism in Germany under Hitler and in Italy under Mussolini and communism in the former Soviet Union under Stalin and in China under Mao.
It's not hard to understand how dangerous it is if people give away their power to untrustworthy individual persons and/or untrustworthy movements.
For understandable reasons, we may not be able to find enough trustworthy persons to serve as magical helpers in our lives.
For this reason, we should undertake to stop projecting the King archetype and the Queen archetype (according to
Instead of projecting archetypes, we should work to access the energies and power of the archetypes.
These two steps sound straightforward enough. But it's not easy to carry out these two steps.
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