This includes the Japanese mother goddess Izanami-no-Mikoto However, some have pointed out that this interpretation may not be as two-sided as Neuman suggests, as many mother characters in world mythologies contain both aspects of creation and destruction. As propogators of the human race, it is no surprise that the Mother archetype is a rather significant one, and mothers tend to be significant figures in many world religions.ĭrawing off of Carl Jung, Erich Neuman identified a mother binary in world religions: there is mother as a nurturing, almost pure caregiver and mother as a destroyer. While Ikuko Tsukino portrays your modern mama, Queen Serenity is her perfect counterpart as, in many ways, Queen Serenity presents the viewer the mother as archetype.įollowing Carl Jung’s definition of “archetype”, an archetype is an underlying archaic pattern that derives from the unconscious and are presented in dreams, religions, myths, stories and other arts.

Using integrated literary and linguistic techniques, explore the role of mothers in Sailor Moon

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