"The stages of psychic development as treated by Neumann are successively (1) the infantile undifferentiated self-contained whole symbolized by the uroboros (tail-eater), the serpent with its tail in its mouth, as well as by other circular or global mythological figures [including Nietzsche's imagery about the eternal return?], (2) the Great Mother (the impersonal womb from which each human infant, male or female, comes, the impersonal femininity which may swallow him [or her] up again), (3) the separation of the world parents (the principle of opposites, differentiation, possibility of change, (4) the birth of the hero (rise of masculinity and of the personalized ego) with its sequels in (5) the slaying of the mother (fight with the dragon: victory over primal creative but consuming femininity, chthonic forces), and (6) the slaying of the father (symbol of thwarting obstruction of individual achievement, [thwarting] what is new), (7) the freeing of the captive (liberation of the ego from endogamous [i.e., "married" within one's psyche] kinship libido and the emergence of the higher femininity, with woman now as person, anima-sister, related positively to ego consciousness), and finally (8) the transformation (new unity in self-conscious individualization, higher masculinity, expressed primordially in the Osiris myth but today entering new phases with heightened individualism [such as Nietzsche's overman] - or, more properly, personalism - of modern man [sic])" (Ong, Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Studies in the Interaction of Expression and Culture [1971, pp. 10-11], mentioned above).
Ong also sums up Neumann's Jungian account of the eight stages of consciousness in his (Ong's) book Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality, and Consciousness (Cornell University Press, 1981, pp. 18-19; but also see the "Index" for further references to Neumann [p. 228]), the published version of Ong's 1979 Messenger Lectures at Cornell University.
Now, within the same time frame as my other reflections in my various other OEN articles in 2024 and 2025, I also reflected on the psychodynamic involved when we become infatuated with someone. In the present wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal OEN article, I have mentioned that I was impressed with John F. Kennedy's 1960s presidential campaign, and I was deeply impressed with his inaugural address in January 1961. I was infatuated with John F. Kennedy. My infatuation with JFK involved my projecting the optimal and positive form King archetype of maturity in my psyche onto him. As a result of my infatuation with JFK, I was deeply crushed when he was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas - as were many other Americans. I mourned President Kennedy's tragic death.
Because I had been infatuated with JFK, I had idolized him - and so had many other Americans. As a result, the revelations about his sexual promiscuity that came out after his tragic death were disturbing, to say the least. Subsequently, I and many other Americans who had idolized JFK were further disturbed by Robert Dallek's detailed revelations about Kennedy's medical history in his 2003 book An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy: 1917-1963 (Little, Brown). Many years later, the feminist journalist Maureen Callahan reviewed John F. Kennedy's sexual promiscuity in great detail in her 2024 book about the Kennedy men titled Ask Not: The Kennedys and the [Thirteen] Women They Destroyed (Little, Brown). I discussed Callahan's 2024 book in my OEN article "John F. Kennedy Was a Compulsive Womanizer" (dated November 29, 2024):
Nevertheless, despite the various revelations about John F. Kennedy, I remain a JFK fan - and I still try to keep abreast of discussions about him. I have more than a shelf of books about him.
As everyone knows, my hero the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was also the subject of startling revelations after his tragic assassination in 1968 about his sexual promiscuity. Even though I projected the optimal and positive form of the masculine Warrior/Knight archetype in my psyche onto Dr. King in the early 1960s, I also still try to keep abreast of discussions about him, and I also have more than a shelf of books about him. I discussed Jonathan Eig's 2023 book King: A Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) in my OEN article "Jonathan Eig on the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." (dated May 28, 2023):
Now, in the fall semester of 1964, I projected the optimal and positive form of the masculine Magician/Shaman archetype of maturity in my psyche onto Father Ong. Fortunately, in his case, no disillusioning revelations about sexual promiscuity have come out - nor have any disillusioning revelations about his medical history or anything else about him come out. Whew! I have not had to process any grief of disillusionment about Father Ong.
Now, starting in the early 1990s, I became infatuated with the Jungian psychotherapist and psychological theorist Robert Moore and his groundbreaking work about the four masculine archetype of maturity in the male psyche. As a result, I bought his five books in the 1990s that he co-authored with Douglas Gillette, and I also bought more than a thousand dollars' worth of audio tapes of Robert Moore speaking about the four masculine archetypes of maturity at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. In addition, I consulted him at his home office for psychotherapy. I projected the optimal and positive form of the masculine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche onto Robert Moore.
When we become infatuated with someone, we always project the optimal and positive form of an archetype in our psyche onto that person.
Now, because I am here discussing the four masculine archetypes of maturity in my psyche, I should say something here as well about the four feminine archetypes of maturity in my psyche.
I cannot tell you exactly when I became infatuated with the now-retired American pornstar Mandy Flores, but it was several years ago now. I fell in love with her gorgeous body and with her delightful performances. By falling in love with Mandy Flores years ago now, I projected the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche onto her - thereby making her my idealized Lover.
At that time, years ago now, I sent her an email message telling her that her big boobs reminded me of my own Mom's big boobs. Mandy Flores sent me a reply email message in which she told me that her big boobs were artificially enhanced. As brief and inconsequential as those two email messages were, they nevertheless served to make Mandy Flores a real woman in my life - not just an idealized Lover. However, as a real woman who lives hundreds of miles from where I live, I also made Mandy Flores the pornstar with big boobs that reminded me of my own Mom's big boobs into a mom figure in my life at that time years go now.
Subsequently, I enjoyed watching Mandy Flores over the years perform with her big boobs and her eye-catching big nipples in her many charming mom-son porn videos that are available free on the internet. With her big boobs and her eye-catching big nipples, Mandy Flores embodied for me the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche.
Now, at a somewhat later time in my life, although I do not remember exactly when, I also became a fan of the prolific American pornstar 5'5" tall Cory Chase (born on February 25, 1981; with measurements of 34D-26-35; and weighing 120 lbs.), and I also projected the optimal and positive form of the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in my psyche onto Cory Chase. I refer to Cory Chase by name 117 times in my OEN article "Thomas J. Farrell's Further Reflections on His Life and Work" (dated May 2, 2025; viewed 1,136 times as of May 22, 2025):
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