excerpts from BEHOLD WOMEN: A Jungian Approach to Feminist Theology, by carrin dunne.chapter 1. does women have a soul? (five approaches to an image)”there are biblical passages, both in the old and new testaments (specifically Nm. 21:4-9 and john 3:14), which hint broadly that god and the serpent are not altogether separate. in fact, if we were to think in greek terms, we might say that the serpent is god’s animal form”. when was women were aligned with the snake, the seductress? why do most fundamentalists today still believe that a women does not belong in the soap box of the pulpit? jung’s main premise was that in every man there is a mirror(women), and in every women there is a mirror(man). this “god” asks the man, “who told thee thou wast naked?”(3:11) the man points to the women, women points to the serpent, the successive gesture reveals to god his own nakedness. can god handle the revelation? god sows distrust between man and his wife, and concomitantly between man and his own soul- “because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife…”(3:17). why doesn’t god say in like manner to the women, “because thou has harkened unto the voice of the serpent…”? is it because it would be to much like saying “because thou hast heard me to well, because thou has overheard that part of me which i do not care to acknowledge…”?
