(4) the feminine Lover archetype of maturity in the human psyche.
In Robert Moores complete theory of the eight archetypes of maturity, each of the eight archetypes of maturity is accompanied by two bipolar shadow forms (for a total of sixteen shadow forms of the eight archetypes of maturity in the human psyche).
Now, the NYT journalist William J. Broad published a wide-ranging article titled Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trumps Attacks on Science: Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics in The New York Times (dated August 31, 2025):
In his NYT article, Broad discusses with the famous example of the Roman Catholic Churchs infamous historical opposition to the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus 1543 book showing that the Earth and planets revolve around the sun.
But the church in 1616 put the Copernican tract on its lists of prohibited books. Undeterred, Galileo, an Italian astronomer, in 1632 published his great work, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. It backed Copernicus.
No doubt this is the most famous historical example of the Roman Catholic Churchs authoritarian opposition to science.
Science aside, the Roman Catholic Church has long had an authoritarian governance structure with the pope as the chief executive officer in the authoritarian governance structure. (But the Roman Catholic Church does not have separate legislative and judicial branches such as our American government has.
Now, in terms of our American experiment in representative democracy, the president of the United States is the chief executive officer in (1) the executive branch of our American government. But our American experiment in representative democracy also includes two other branches of our American government: (2) the legislative branch and (3) the judicial branch.
No doubt President Donald Trump as the chief executive officer has spearheaded his war on science in his second term as the president of the United States.
For understandable reasons, President Trumps war on science as well of his overall demeanor as an agent of chaos understandably arouse the concerns of historians who have studied authoritarian regimes.
For a perceptive psychological study of President Trump, see the American Kleinian psychoanalyst Justin A. Franks book Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (Avery/ Penguin Random House, 2018).
Now, the American journalist Anne Applebaum published the short book Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World in 2024 (Doubleday/ Penguin Random House).
I have written about Anne Applebaums short 2024 book in my OEN article Anne Applebaum on Contemporary Autocrats (dated August 2, 2024; viewed 821 times as of September 11, 2025).
For a book of related interest, see the historian Robert O. Paxtons 2004 book The Anatomy of Fascism (Alfred A. Knopf).
Now, because I come from a Roman Catholic background, I want to discuss not the infamous historical example of the Roma Catholic Churchs opposition to Copernicus and Galileo, but the explicitly authoritarian governance structure of the Roman Catholic Church with the pope as the chief executive officer.
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