“In Jungian psychology, the mother archetype is universal, and the mother complex is personal. It develops around our actual experience of being mothered and everything we psychologically associated with the concept of the mother. Every person has some relationship to motherhood because they were once a child. Our mother complex contains our experiences of safety, protection, abandonment, love, dependence, guilt, and our resentment. All sorts of feelings are constellated around what we experience as our mother. For women who become mothers themselves, another layer is added because their own maternal identity is activated.

When we encounter a story like Lindsay Clancy, people are not necessarily responding only to her, the individual woman, they’re responding to the unconscious material around their own mother, their experience of being a child, their experience of motherhood, and their own internal image of what a mother is supposed to be.

Someone whose psychological survival depended upon believing a mother would never do these things will experience enormous rage towards any attempt to humanize Lindsay. This case triggers people’s mother complex and tells us why so many different people are looking at the same exact woman and seeing entirely different people.

One person sees a loving mother who became extremely mentally ill. Another sees an evil mother who killed her children for selfish reasons, and this is what makes the public response a giant projection screen for the collective mother archetype and everyone’s individual mother complex.”

-Laura Matsue

Episode 181 – Lindsay Clancy: Psychosis, Evil, or Spirit Possession?

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