#36 | Video Games, Violence and Healing the Shadow Lover - Eivind Skjellum
The Mythic Masculine
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Is There a Danger of Blaming the Mother?
Sally Kohn: I'm curious to hear your take on what it means to move away from the home of the archetypal mother for a man's like inner psyche. You know, traditionally that looks like some kind of ritualized initiation, which is obviously completely gone from our culture. And so men are lost in some compensatory posturing, proving themselves that I'm not actually entangled with mother. She says gang culture and this kind of a thing where a young man comes to associate masculinity with something very aggressive and very violent because he hasn't been shown a template of healthy masculinity.Kohn: Men become stuck in this never-ending, compensatory strategy of trying to prove that
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