Wednesday 20 April 2016

From the Yin angle.

For a long time Christianity was exclusively a religion of the light; in other words, the Yang, the bright quality, the male substance. And everything that was Yin, or female, was necessarily sinful. This explains the negative attitude of medieval Christianity towards women; they doubted very much whether women had a soul. Women were usually suspected, particularly when they were at all pretty, of being servants of the devil; it was a woman who listened to the serpent in Paradise and thus brought sin into the world. So now the Christian point of view is no longer in dubitably valid, we see that woman increases in importance and in psychological dignity. It is the prerogative of our times to discover that woman has a psychology, and that there is another viewpoint outside the masculine world. The whole domain of psychology has hitherto been masculine, it was an entirely new discovery that the world could be looked at from a quite different angle, from the Yin angle.
C.G. Jung, Visions Seminars, Vol.1 526-7

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