Thanatos - a contribution to the understanding of the collective shadow

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Thanatos - a contribution to the understanding of the collective shadow

Abstract: The principle of the death drive (Thanatos) is understood as a genuine psychic force connected with the mother complex. Destructivity in repetitious form can temporarily emancipate the ego from unconscious dependency in phallic-narcissism. It is present in the immature or fragile personality (the weak ego). Thanatos is unconsciously therapeutic in that it aims at strengthening a frail ego consciousness. It can ward off unconscious wholeness, invariably associated with the Mother archetype, in which the borders of personality are dissolved. Although it serves to avoid regression, destructiveness can become obsessive. The sun god Horus’s perennial struggle against Seth, in Egyptian mythology, illustrates the dynamics of Thanatos. Accordingly, every night Seth defends the sun bark by defeating the negative Mother in the guise of the chaos monster Apophis. Thanks to Seth, the sun of consciousness is restored and can rise again in the morning. In history, phallocentric culture is sustained by Thanatos in its restorative capacity, but this runs counter to the ideals of patriarchal culture, whose guiding star is Horus.

Keywords: Todestrieb, matricide, maternal bond, trauma, suicide, mortido, destrudo, patriarchal, Phallic Mother, complementation.

Read the article here:

mlwi.magix.net/thanatos.htm
two-paths.com/thanatos.htm
 
We must know the nature of evil,otherwise it is not possible to walk the narrow path. Carl Jung says:

“Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the shadow and the world of darkness. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
“The Philosophical Tree” (1945). In CW 13: Alchemical Studies. P.335
 
We see evil all over the news and in the world every day. I don’t need any pseudo-new-age-psychological-overtones-scholarly-whatsis on its nature.

As they said about spinach…It is Evil, and I say to Hell with it.
 
“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6)

Jesus met the devil in the desert and looked him in the eye. He had knowledge of Satan, because he had seen Satan fall as lightning from heaven. What do we learn from this? That we should turn a blind eye to the forces of destruction? The angry verbalism with which Jesus attacks the hypocrisy of his times is key to his message. It means that we must also see through hypocrisy, because the devil works through deception: “Satan, as the father of lies, works through deception to lead men away from the truth” (Genesis 3:1-5).

Jesus says: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.” (Matthew 10:16)

It seems that Jesus’s commandment, to be cunning like snakes, has been relinquished. Christians shouldn’t be so easeful, so “lukewarm–neither hot nor cold” (Revelation 3:16). They ought to be warm like doves and cold like serpents.

M. Winther

(This thread has been moved to “Non-Catholic religions”, but this is so silly, because Thanatos is just another name for the devil.)
 
“The principle of the death drive (Thanatos) is understood as a genuine psychic force …”

I don’t know about a “death drive” but I have heard the following:

O SON OF THE SUPREME!
I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve? I made the light to shed on thee its splendor. Why dost thou veil thyself therefrom?
~ Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words
 
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