#creation of woman

[nicklloydnow]

“This book is the third part of a trilogy whose previous volumes were published under the names Myth and Guilt and Mystery on the Mountain. These three works have certain features in common. They deal with unsolved problems in the prehistory of the people who created the Old Testament and they grapple with those problems in the same manner. Also, the aim of their research is the same: they try to penetrate the darkness surrounding the earliest times of Israel and the traditions of the nomadic stage from which the Hebrew tribes emerge.

In coping with those problems, an approach similar to that of the psychoanalytic exploration of individual life recommended itself. The psychoanalytic method provided the tools to enter the concealed compartment of the individual's emotional and mental life. Freud has shown us that men are not made to keep secrets. Secrets ooze out of all their pores.

The great psychologist implied, but did not explicitly declare, that nations are also unable to keep secrets and unconsciously betray them by small signs and symptoms. In using those un-observed or neglected indications as clues, my three books endeavor to discover some essential facts of the unknown life of prehistoric Israel, its scrupulously concealed and carefully guarded tribal mysteries.

The particular case presented here is of special interest because it did not simply involve digging up customs and rites from the debris of a forgotten civilization. The task was rather to explore a secret and to break a silence of three thousand years, an absolute and severe silence imposed on the Hebrew tribesmen and strictly preserved by them. It was thus necessary to overcome strong resistances against penetration of a secret, sealed with a sacred vow by all men of the tribe.

The task would be impossible if those subterranean secrets did not send descendants of their original contents to the surface, if even after a long time no messages could reach us from the recesses of prehistoric life. We have already mentioned this phenomenon of re-emergence of the concealed in the form of offspring of submerged material, of "the return of the repressed from repression."

In Myth and Guilt, I tried to unearth the lost Semitic tradition of a cannibalistic crime. The analysis of the Biblical myth of Adam's original sin, as well as of other myths, enabled me to reconstruct the earliest traditions of prehistoric Israel. In Mystery on the Mountain I attempted to trace the Biblical narrative of the Sinai revelation back to the tradition of an initiation festival of the Hebrew tribes, a secret that was subsequently closely joined with the story of the exodus from Egypt. In the present essay the myth of Eve's birth is interpreted with the help of comparison with the puberty rites of preliterate peoples. If they can be verified the three attempts would mark a step forward, however small, toward scientific mastery of the unknown prehistory of Israel.” - Theodor Reik, ‘The Creation of Woman’ (1960) [pages 133, 134]

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PRETTY WOMAN 1990 | dir. Garry Marshall

[buggachat]

seeing a lot of talk of the season 5 finale, which is fun, i get that it was controversial (honestly the fact it was really risky is kind of one of the things i like about it lol) and wanting to add my two cents but can't think of much i haven't already said before

but something i do want to emphasize is that season 5 ending on Marinette telling the biggest, boldest faced lie she's ever told (that goes far beyond "protecting her identity") to kick off the Lila arc is by far the coolest thing they could've done imo, because I was not at all excited for the Lila arc before but now I'm totally invested. Now Lila isn't the Evil Liar to be taken down by Good Marinette. Marinette is the liar to be taken down by the very liar that she took down. It's not a story of "defeat that freakishly evil girl" anymore, but instead a story of "Marinette's own actions and decisions coming back to bite her". And the lie itself (WHICH LILA KNOWS IS A LIE!!) only exists because, and is most impactful towards, her relationship with Adrien, which is the core of the series!! I CARE about their relationship, and that's the stakes!!!

I just cannot get over how cool that is, and how much I didn't expect it. I know we all were expecting a big fight with Ladybug and Chat Noir just defeating Gabriel and then watching Chat Noir cry or whatever in the few remaining minutes of screen-time and then it's all over and done with, but that's a series finale. This was a season finale. And they did something really unique and unexpected with it, while making sure it's a juicy season-finale conflict that leaves me actually excited about season 6

also, a side note— I think the framing of the finale made this confusing so I totally get why discussions about it are kind of all over the place, but... 90% of the post-wish stuff we saw had nothing to do with Gabriel at all. It was all Mayor Bustier, who was already running for mayor and wanted to enact green laws and projected to win (she was up against D'Argencourt, the character whose schtick is that nobody ever votes for him in elections). I don't think Gabriel's wish included "Please, Gimmi, I want my son's school teacher to win the mayoral election this year" lol. So a lot of talk of "why is Gabriel's World presented in such a positive light?" is kind of weird to me. That's not Gabriel's World. That's Caline Bustier's. All we know so far about Gabriel's World is that Nathalie is in it and he is not. And frankly, the fact everyone is so happy and cheerful and living it up after his death is more a roast than anything

( also, just a reminder that the presentation of Gabriel's statue— the only scene discussing Gabriel in a positive light by someone In The Know— was done by Tomoe Tsurugi, a series antagonist, vowing to continue his work, with a song in minor key playing in the background. i feel like the question of "was this meant to be unsettling or triumphant?" is pretty obvious. just wanted to remind everyone. also by definition characters cannot celebrate gabriel as a "hero" without in the same breath celebrating monarch's, aka gabriel's, death. yknow? )

[letoghanima]

STEVE TREVOR being completely Normal About It™

[inamindfarfaraway]

I love how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse said “Anyone can be Spider-Man”. I love how it inspired everyone to imagine their own Spider-People, saving the day in their own universes, with all kinds of cool, interesting personalities and aesthetics and mutations and life stories and relationships. We all put pieces of our soul into these homemade heroes. We had fun. We found community. And then Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse said, “Wow, great job! You’ve really taken our message to heart. Well, get ready for even more of everything you liked from the first movie and a new message to complement the first. Anyone can be Spider-Man… and anyone can be pulled into a cult.”

So now we all have to contemplate whether our lovingly crafted heroes would ever be on Team Mandatory Trauma Because Martyr Complex or not and why.

[diversehistorical]

Jayme Lawson as Shante in The Woman King

[mericanasshole83]

[xanna-tose]

Yesterday's News

[lowcallyfruity]

Hey guys

[satoshy12]

G.I.W. in Themyscira

The Amazons are Liminal.

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Danny had been trying to escape the GIW already for a very long time, and he had enough! They legit ignored other ghosts for him!

He had no idea how long he had been flying, as he was taken down as he landed on the island. And was greeted with confused women's until they saw the army of people pointing guns at the child.

At first, the GIW talked about how he is an evil villain and how similar and sweet he is.

Till One of the agents pointed out that the women too activated the sensory system like Phantom did.

And their leader asked the question.

Hippolyta:" We are reborn after we had a brutal death."

G.I.W.:" So you are ecto scum! Be ready to be painfully experimented with! In the name of US law.

For Hippolyta, this was the last straw! She had her Amazon arrest them, and the agents truly did fight back, and the weapons did hurt them very painfully.

As it melted their skin, they contracted.

But after a short time, they were all defeated and captured.

They would now wait for Diana to complain, and Hippolyta would spend much time scolding her for it. What was she doing in the men's world if that wasn't fixed?!!

But they were confused by Phantom, as it seemed like he was created similarly to them. By a very painful death and then brought back to life.

Once they touched him, they felt his death and all the Traumas and similar, to the point that only a few could move him.

Hippolyta couldn't leave the child who had been born similar to them alone; that was how Diana was told to look after him while in the men's world.

[nicklloydnow]

“There is a body of ritual and teaching which is supposed to bring about a decisive change in the status and aftitude of the novices. In those "rites de passage," a boy is separated from his mother and passes through a series of ordeals that take him from childhood and bring him to adulthood. He becomes a responsible member of his tribe. The initiation marks the end of a period of life and the beginning of a new phase, a vita nova. The highlights of the mystery - if the paradoxical expression is permissible - are the rites of "death and resurrection," as Frazer and other anthropologists call the drama, or as it is otherwise named, of "death and rebirth." Characterization of the rites makes us see that there is no contradiction between those two descriptions. For the primitive mentality, initiatory death provides the clean slate on which will be written the successive revelations whose end is the formation of a new man. Mirca Eliade, whose recent book deals with the religious meaning of initiation, points to the primitive belief that a state of being cannot be changed unless the previous form of existence is first annihilated. Therefore, death in the initiation is indispensable for beginning a new life. It is remarkable, however, that in many primitive tribes the symbol of this initiatory death is darkness or night, sometimes the belly of a monster or even of a womb.” - Theodor Reik, ‘The Creation of Woman’ (1960) [pages 88, 89]

[yeonjune]

(230922) txt tiktok update: Respect @kirstendodgen. Respect @JamRepublicAgency.

[creepycr4wly]

Not even a teensie weensie bite

Commission me

[letoghanima]

WONDER WOMAN (2017) dir. Patty Jenkins

[andsjuliet]

nancy drew parallels

the search for the midnight wraith (2x01) ⇾ the trial of the missing witness (2x12) ⇾ the warning of the frozen heart (3x01) ⇾ the dilemma of the lover's curse (4x01) ⇾ the maiden's rage (4x02)

[mericanasshole83]