Goddesses in Everywoman
negative consequences when she does not conform to Hera, as well as by positive validation if she does. Evidence that Hera might ...
them both, even after twenty years of marriage, Hera was not an active archetype. THE SACRED MARRIAGE Two of the three meanings ...
me, I felt wonderful. It was like a mystical reunion. I can’t explain it: there was a deep sense of peace at the same time that ...
make love to someone who has almost totally destroyed me. I have been publicly humiliated again and again.^3 In spite of her acc ...
changes to conform to a type of man who can make a commitment, then fulfilling Hera’s urge to be a wife may be possible. HERA TH ...
boys are “yucky,” finding boys to “play house” gets near to im- possible. Here and there, even in first grade, some pairing off ...
constitutes status may differ, but the pattern is the same. She seeks to be coupled with a high-status young man and yearns for ...
On the one scale that counts, she has failed (in her own eyes) regard- less of her achievements. Other goddesses usually are pre ...
tion, or she discounts them—as merely women without men. After marriage, she does almost all socializing as part of a couple. Wh ...
man. Many men who are highly successful in the world often have, as with Zeus, an appealing, emotionally immature little-boy ele ...
the beginning of her marriage. Whether or not this situation stays unchanged over the years depends on whether the Aphrodite arc ...
mostly as a part of his social facade. He has wedded a woman of his own social class or higher and can appear with her at his si ...
still the legitimate wife. Or the patient may be the ex-husband, who feels harassed by daily calls from his ex-wife. Or the pati ...
tent to do it—whatever ‘it’ was, he put me down. He mocked what was important to me, and several times even destroyed something ...
LATER YEARS For the Hera woman who went from being Hera the Maiden to Hera the Perfected One, becoming Hera the Widow is the har ...
and satisfaction or will result in pain and rage depends on the quality of the marriage and on the man’s fidelity. When her inst ...
or Zeus who fulfills. After the ceremony, she may be deeply and ir- rationally disappointed and may feel that he deceived her, a ...
Or she may be unable to move out of a marriage that is exceedingly damaging to her. The goddess Hera suffered more than any othe ...
goes to extremes for revenge. The Medea myth is a metaphor that describes the Hera woman’s capacity to put her commitment to a m ...
did was a result either of loving or of losing him. Medea was ob- sessed, possessed, and driven mad by her need to be Jason’s ma ...
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