By Barbara E. Hort
ISBN-10: 1570621810
ISBN-13: 9781570621819
Vampires usually are not simply imaginary creatures of fiction or legend-they quite exist. they're the folk who, having by no means obtained love, accept strength as an alternative, and turn into specialists at robbing others in their important power. now we have all identified them. In her attention-grabbing learn of this darkish mental archetype, Barbara Hort appears to conventional myths in addition to to their sleek equivalents in literature, theater, and picture, following a blood-soaked path to such unforeseen locations because the Silence of the Lambs, "Snow White" and the Broadway musical Gypsy. She bargains perception into how psychic vampires originate, how we enable ourselves to be stuck of their clutches, and the way we will safeguard ourselves from their seductive impact
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This awakened Snow White, who shook with fear at the sight of the seven odd little men.
The myth of the feminine vampire is not well known in the West, but it is high time we brought it into the clear light of our consciousness, for the archetype it describes has permeated our psyches as deeply as that of the Draculan vampire. More deeply, perhaps, since our unconsciousness about the feminine vampire grants her free access to our psychic depths, where she can feed us at her soft, cloying will. She preys upon the strong as well as weak, but I will first address the ways she feeds on vulnerable feminine victims, the better to compare her predatory tactics with those of the masculine vampire of the previous chapter.
Similarly, the Aphrodisian woman will often dismiss or distrust her potential for independence, and at her worst moments the woman deteriorates into a de-selfed trollop. These women often find themselves after several years in a situation the father (incarnated in her masculine consorts) has be by the woman's intimate sexuality, but at the cost of dignity. Athenainspired women tend to dismiss as simpering whores the women inspired by Aphrodite, and although Aphrodite-inspired women tend to dismiss as heartless viragos the women inspired by Athena, the myths of these two goddesses and the energy fields they represent are really quite similar.