The Hero Archetype and Its Limits

The crisis in mature masculinity is very much upon us. Men feel anxious, on the verge of feeling impotent, helpless, frustrated, unloved, unappreciated, and often ashamed of being masculine. Something vital is missing in the many lives of men.

For students of mythology and Jungian psychology, there is hope. The external deficiencies we face—absent fathers, immature role models, a lack of meaningful rituals, and the scarcity of ritual elders—can be overcome if we look within ourselves, and turn towards the archetypes of the mature masculine within our unconscious.

In King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette explore the difference between Boy psychology or the archetypes of immature masculinity and Man psychology or the archetypes of mature masculinity, as well as their shadow sides.

“The more beautiful, competent, and creative we become, the more we seem to invite the hostility of our superiors, or even of our peers. What we are really being attacked by is the immaturity in human beings who are terrified of our advances on the road toward masculine or feminine fullness of being.”

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

0:26 Absence of Rituals

1:55 Patriarchy

3:33 The Crisis in Mature Masculinity

6:00 The Immature Masculine Archetypes

7:07 Accessing The Archetype in its Fullness

7:42 The Divine Child

10:21 The Shadow of The Divine Child

13:00 The Precocious Child

13:53 The Shadow of The Precocious Child

15:40 The Oedipal Child

17:00 The Shadow of The Oedipal Child

18:40 The Hero

21:00 The Shadow Side of The Hero

22:13 The Mature Masculine Archetypes

22:50 The King

25:55 The Shadow of The King

27:24 Accessing The King

28:00 The Warrior

32:00 The Shadow of The Warrior

33:33 Accessing the Warrior

33:58 The Magician

35:58 The Shadow of The Magician

37:10 Accessing The Magician

38:12 The Lover

40:25 The Shadow of The Lover

42:50 Accessing the Lover

43:37 Techniques

46:08 Conclusion

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