THE GREAT MOTHER GODDESS AND THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF PATRIARCHY
Keywords:
PSYCHOGENESIS, PATRIARCHY, EarthAbstract
Recent years have witnessed a "return of the Goddess" in such movements as neo-paganism, the new theologies, and ecofeminism. l For many, this return signals the collapse of a worldview, or a set of fundamental assumptions underlying a series of worldviews, that has dominated the entire historical period. What has dominated is the spirit of domination itself, the spirit of empire and conquest, of exploitation and enslavement, a spirit now commonly identified with patriarchy- the "rute of the fathers".
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