Matriarhāts - Patiesība Vai "Mīts"?: Matriarchy - Truth or "Myth"?
This paper is dedicated to the topic of matriarchy, investigating the question whether it is only a myth construed for specific political and ideological purposes, an absolute truth, or whether there is a different kind of answer (e. g., "psychological truth"). Proponents of the first vers...
| Published in: | Cel̜š |
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| Language: | Latvian |
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LU Akadēmiskais apgāds
2017
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Cel̜š
Year: 2017, Issue: 67, Pages: 242-259 |
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| Summary: | This paper is dedicated to the topic of matriarchy, investigating the question whether it is only a myth construed for specific political and ideological purposes, an absolute truth, or whether there is a different kind of answer (e. g., "psychological truth"). Proponents of the first version maintained that the myth was created in the 19th century because of the scientific discoveries that revealed a vast amount of "blank" prehistory that had to be filled - the biblical timeline of 6000 years of history, and patriarchy as its original form of organization was challenged, and patriarchialists created the matriarchal myth to show that women were inferior to men, because they already had had their time of power and it was exceeded by the more superior form of patriarchal rule. Nevertheless, the myth was soon taken over by feminists and Marxists that reversed it - matriarchy was the lost "golden age". On the other hand, there were and still are theorists that believe in the actual existence of matriarchal societies. Their main arguments are based on the vast amount of traditional myths (i.e., stories) that reveal a paramount status of women and also actual living aboriginal societies that still retain this social organization today (besides matriarchal paradigm's residuals in the so-called modern societies). Difficulties here are presented by finding the definition of matriarchy, because, obviously, it is not a reversal of patriarchy, as critics and, unfortunately, also some proponents of this theory attempt to indicate. Additionally, other versions about prehistory have been suggested. The moderate feminists have proposed a greater equality between genders in the distant past. Although several of the facts propounded may be veritable (and that enlightens the fact of "patriarchal myth", often disregarded by those that criticize "matriarchal myth") to the author of this thesis it appears as a third - "egalitarian myth". Mainly from the perspective of depth psychology, I have advocated my own view that matriarchy is a "psychological fact", indicating that the "power (even tyranny) of the mother" is an original, universal experience not only of individuals, but probably of the entire humanity in its infancy. |
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