Masculine Shame: From Succubus to the Eternal Feminine by Mary Y. Ayers

By Mary Y. Ayers

How does a twin of the succubus relate to psychoanalytic thought?


Masculine disgrace: From Succubus to the everlasting Feminine explores the concept identical to the succubus, a demonic woman creature acknowledged to emasculate males and homicide moms and babies, has been created out of the masculine projection of disgrace and appears at how the transformation of this picture will be traced via Western background, mythology, and Judeo-Christian literature.


Divided into 3 elements components of debate include:




  • the start of civilization and the evolution of the succubus

  • the picture of the succubus within the writings of Freud and Jung

  • the succubus as baby killing mom to the recovery of the everlasting feminine.


Through a technique of unique cultural and social research, the writer areas similar to the succubus on the very middle of psychoanalytic concept, highlighting its presence in either Freud’s Medusa and Jung’s visions of Salome. As such, this e-book can be of serious curiosity to all these within the fields of analytical psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.

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