“The paradox [with Lindsay Clancy] is the good mother versus the devouring mother. This great mother archetype has never been purely benevolent. The mother contains opposites; she gives life, she takes life, she nourishes, she devours, she creates, and destroys.
In that sense, she also mirrors Mother Nature itself: the earth gives birth, feeds and sustains life, and is also the same earth in which all living things will eventually die through death, decay, and even destruction.
The same mother that creates a beautiful forest can also, in essence, instill a forest fire. Culturally, we tend to split these two sides apart. We want the nurturing mother over here and the terrible mother over there.
Psychologically, that’s understandable, because children need to experience their caregivers as fundamentally safe and good. But Lindsay’s case destroys that separation because testimony describes her as a woman deeply invested in her children and in her identity as a loving mother. Yet she’s also the same mother who ultimately killed them.
Her perfectionism in this case makes it even more interesting, because the perfect mother creates a very powerful shadow. Lindsay strongly wanted to be this ideal mother: always there for her kids, always patient, nurturing, and never experiencing resentment, rage, or the desire to escape.
But real mothers experience all kinds of feelings. A mother can love her children while feeling exhausted by them. She can feel love for them and anger at her lack of space and her lack of need. She can want to protect her children and also desperately want someone to take them away from her for a while.
These opposites do not ordinarily produce violence in women. They are part of our ordinary psychological ambivalence, but if the conscious identity becomes, “I am a good mother, therefore I can’t have any of those other feelings,” the unacceptable material gets suppressed into the shadow.
Then the shadow contains whatever the personality cannot recognize as itself. For a person identified as loving, competent, selfless, and maternal, the shadow becomes rage, aggression, hatred, or fantasies of escape. Because this activates the mother archetype, it triggers the mother complex.”
-Laura Matsue
Episode 181 – Lindsay Clancy: Psychosis, Evil, or Spirit Possession?
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