The Death Mother Part 1 of The Great Mother Series
This presentation will focus on the Death Mother archetype, beginning with placing the
Death Mother within the context of Neumann’s Mother archetype map and exploring
her current social and cultural manifestations, including an exploration of the various
archetypal complexes that show up in mothering (for example, the Vampire mother).
We will go on to explore the powerful impact of the Death Mother in her fullest sense at
the level of literal and psychological infanticide.
We will weave psychoanalytic infanticidal attachment theory with the Death Mother
complex as experienced within mother and child, and how to recognise and be with this
presentation in the therapy room.
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Brief Overview:
The presentation will be structured as follows:
1. Mapping out the Death Mother spectrum including the Dark Mother complexes.
including where it fits in Neumann’s Mother archetype map, and where it aligns
or doesn’t with the dark goddesses such as Kali.
2. Exploring various Dark Mother complexes.
3. The situation of literal and/or psychological infanticide and the full force of the
Death Mother - both mother and child and the layers of trauma and toxic shame
enacted.
4. In the therapy room and discussion.
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