The Devouring Mother II

Finished Sheridan's The Devouring Mother. I am persuaded that our society is enacting the devouring mother archetype, just as Germany enacted the Wotan archetype in the mid-20th century. This dynamic has three actors: The smothering mother-figure, the obedient child, the rebellious child.

I wish Sheridan had something to say about how we can wake up from the nightmare. If, as he says, Trump embodies the rebellious child who must be punished by the State-mother, does RFK Jr represent a rejection of this psychodrama altogether? Or can no one stand outside it? must it play out on its own horrible internal schedule?

I wish I, and everyone else, had read it sooner. I think this might be the best hypothesis I've seen (out of many) to explain the misery of the past five years.