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In other words, when we project the King archetype onto somebody, we thereby enlist that person as a magical helper in our lives. Because Moore claims that we also have a Queen archetype in the archetypal level of our psyches, I assume that we would also be able to enlist a magical helper by projecting the Queen archetype onto her.

 

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 Moore, all people have both of these archetypes in the archetypal level of their psyches).

 

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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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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