In one of the most thought-provoking passages in Robert Moore's 2003 book Facing the Dragon, he says the following that could be considered to be about President Donald Trump regarding the king and the warrior archetypes of maturity in his psyche: "If you are inflated with the king or queen (connected to them in an immature way), you want others to bless and care for you. If you are inflated with the warrior, if it moves you want to fight with it and make war on it, because a warrior always has to have an enemy. If you are inflated with the magus, if it moves you want to understand it and interpret it. You don't necessarily want to do anything about it. You just want to understand it and penetrate its secrets. If you are inflated with the Lover, if it moves you want to lick it or put it in your mouth some other way. Babies manifest this. That is the body talking. That is embodiment. That is Freud's 'polymorphous perversity,' but there is nothing particularly perverse about it. It is just the lover manifesting. It is the sacramental human. For the lover is part of the psyche, everything gleams with beauty and luminosity. It is the sensation function. That is why so many intuitive personality types have the sensation function in the shadow. They act out in the realm of love and sexuality because it is so numinous for them. The part of the divine [archetypal] Self is in their shadow. They don't assume they know all about it, so when it appears, it truly seems to them like a manifestation of the sacred. That is why the inflated lover can get into so much trouble, acting out and into addiction. . . . Addictions are disorders of the lover quadrant, because it is all very sacramental. You cannot get enough of whatever it is - food, alcohol, cocaine, sex, or you name it" (pp. 116-117).
Robert Moore is here describing the Addicted Lover "shadow" form of both the masculine and the feminine Lover archetypes of maturity in the human psyche. As far as I know, Robert Moore does not describe the Impotent Lover "shadow" form of the masculine and the feminine Lover archetypes of maturity in such detail anywhere else. However, I assume that a person who is locked into the Impotent Lover "shadow" form of the masculine or the feminine Lover archetype of maturity could be inflated with the Impotent Lover "shadow" form of it.
Now, on the Dedication page of Robert Moore's 2003 book Facing the Dragon, we read, "To the memory of J. R. R. Tolkien for his intuitive understanding of the dynamics underlying the horrors of the human past" (p. v).
In the text of Robert Moore's 2003 book Facing the Dragon discusses Tolkien's famous fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings (pp. ix, xi, 48, and 217).
I have written about J. R. R. Tolkien in the following two OEN articles: (1) "About J. R. R. Tolkien's Fantasy Novel, The Lord of the Rings" (dated February 15, 2025; viewed 1,132 times as of July 21, 2025):
(2) "Thomas J. Farrel's Encore About J. R. R. Tolkien" (dated February 22, 2025; viewed 738 times as of July 21, 2025):
For further reading about Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, see Pai Skogemann's book Where the Shadow Lies: A Jungian Interpretation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (Chiron Publications, 2018; original work published 2004).
Now, in Robert Moore's "Preface" in his 2003 book Facing the Dragon, he says the following: Chapters 1 and 12 present my current assessment of these issues as a continuing psychological and spiritual challenge. Chapters 2 through 8 and 10 come from lectures and discussions held at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. The edited texts of these chapters retain some instances where audience members enriched the discussion by interjecting comments, raising questions, or asking for clarification. Chapter 9 comes from a paper presented at a symposium on "Jealousy, Envy, and Hatred Among World Religions. Chapter 11, 'Dragon Laws,' was specially written for confronting personal, social, and spiritual grandiosity. The chapter notes and bibliography include some updated references that have appeared in the intervening years" (p. xiii).
Now, occasionally Robert Moore briefly reveals certain autobiographical information about himself (see pp. xiv-xv, 46, 109, 110, 115, 133, and 140). Regarding Robert Moore's autobiographical information about himself, he mentions the Jungian analyst Lee Roloff's clever saying, "In every re-search there is always a me-search" (p. 109; he also mentions Lee Rolf on p. xv).
Because I was in the Jesuits (1979-1987), I was happy to see Robert Moore refer to St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), the founder of the Jesuit order (known formally as the Society of Jesus) in the subsection "Active Imagination" in Chapter 10: "Resources for Facing the Dragon" in his 2003 book Facing the Dragon (pp.182-186): "These practices [of prayer] included the spiritual exercises of Ignatius [Loyola]and a lot of other forms of dialogue with Christ, with Mary, and with the various saints." In the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, he regularly instructs the person making a retreat following the Spiritual Exercises the instruction to end the meditation of the day with a dialogue with the person in the biblical passage that the person making the retreat had been meditating on. The instruction meant that the person making the retreat was to construct both sides of the dialogue.
When I made a 30-day directed retreat in silence (except for the daily conferences with the retreat director) following the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, I was not capable of carrying in both sides of a dialogue with Jesus or Mary or any of the other biblical characters in the biblical passages I meditated on each day. Nevertheless, my 30-day retreat was a memorable event in my life.
However, I did catch on to imagining the scenes in each biblical passage for each period of meditation. Now, when I was without phone or internet service for two weeks in March 2025, I was writing my wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 28,800-word Oen article "Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy" (dated March 24, 2025), mentioned above, in which I mention the gorgeous pornstar Mandy Flores by name 250 times. I used my imagination to imagine her gorgeous body as I described her gorgeous in detail.
Now, unfortunately, Ignaius Loyola did not make it into the "Index" in Robert Moore's 2003 book Facing the Dragon.
Now, in Robert Moore's Chapter 5: "Discerning and Facing Your Own Grandiosity" in his 2003 book Facing the Dragon, he says, among other things, "You can take that energy that is coming toward you and, through your prayer, pass it on. 'Here,' you say, 'this is really yours, Lord. Take it. It belongs to you'" (p. 95).
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