SATANIC PANIC: The Archetypal Slanderer and False Memory Syndrome

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

What drives us to seek meaning in the shadows, and how do we discern the real from the imagined when fear and faith converge?

The rise of the Satanic Panic in the 1980s drew upon ancient archetypal fears of evil embedded in the collective unconscious, merging with societal stressors like the emergence of fundamentalist Christianity in American politics and women’s increased participation in the workforce with the resultant rise of daycare use. The archetype of the Devil as slanderer can capture a community. Even as they are prompted to accuse others of devilish behavior, they themselves are controlled by the slandering spirit. Accusing is a defense that expiates one’s guilt and places it in another. Potentiated by a blend of projection and literalization, mass hysteria around claims of ritual abuse was spurred on by poorly trained therapists and law enforcement. Anecdotal reports of hypnotized adults and children were taken as factual and later discovered to be suggestions presented by authority figures. Later, researchers found that people in trance states would testify to experiences they had never experienced if it was merely suggested to them. False Memory Syndrome ruined the lives of many innocent workers. The resistance to reflection and self-confrontation makes us vulnerable to externalizing our shadow, and others usually pay the price.

Prepare to discover what shapes our collective fears and how they influence our perception of reality; how suggestive authority, societal narratives, and memory contribute to the formation of belief; which psychological mechanisms can lead individuals to deeply believe in events that have not occurred; whether we can truly trust recovered memories or if they are manufactured by cultural and therapeutic biases; why archetypal themes resurface throughout history in cycles of moral panic…and so much more.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:04.2	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,
0:09.7	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:19.4	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:23.4	I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:28.4	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod.
0:53.2	Thank you. Halloween is a fun time for kids to wear costumes, attend parties, gather up candy and store it for weeks.
0:57.6	But it's also an ancient, or not, or read it all in 24 hours. But it's also an ancient Celtic holiday called Sawin, which is a time when the
1:07.2	veil between the living and the dead thinned. This is when the uncanny side of
1:13.0	psyche or the irrational manifestations of the unconscious were highlighted. And with the suppression
1:20.6	of pagan rituals and ideas by the ever-powerful Roman Catholic Church, non-Christian images were seen as evil.
1:30.2	Instinctive impulses that challenged the asceticism of the new faith were banished.
1:36.3	And these were called Satan, which in Hebrew means adversary or accuser, or devil, which in Latin, Diablos means the slanderer.
1:49.4	And very interestingly, the Greek word Diablos is composed of the prefix DIA, which means a cross, and Balin, which means to throw.
1:58.6	So Diablos means one who throws accusations across, or one who divides.
2:08.1	In the Latin, Lucifer was actually the name of the planet Venus, the morning star. And Venus,
2:15.5	the goddess of love and sensuous beauty and sexuality, became an enormous problem
2:23.3	for the powerful ascetic church.
2:26.3	These ancient images and archetypes don't go anywhere, they just go underground.
2:31.3	And as Jung said, the ancient gods and goddesses become
2:36.2	symptoms because they are no longer understood consciously. They were reactivated in the United
2:44.2	States in the 1980s and 90s in an event called the satanic panic.
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