2007-03-05 14:35:46理書

Destroyer (毀壞者) (成昌)

Destroyer (Attila, Mad Scientist, Serial Killer, Spoiler) (成昌)
毀壞者(匈奴王阿提拉,瘋狂的科學家,連續殺人者,掠奪者)

破壞和重建是描述生命死亡、重生這循環的另一種方式。系統和結構必須被拆解以供新生命誕生。所有的傳統在神話和傳說中都有關於神(或女神)把毀滅帶到世上來的說法。耶和華用大洪水摧毀這世界,降下火和硫黃於所多瑪城和蛾摩拉城。在印度教的傳統,女神迦梨通常被描繪成繫著肢解的手臂所做成的腰帶,掛著人們頭臚串成的項鍊,代表毀壞的正面力量,毀滅無知並維持世上的次序。濕婆神,相對於迦梨的男神,為了創造而破壞。
破壞和重建的衝動是原型的,我們被跼限在這循環中,而在其中存有著學習。毀壞也意指釋放掉毀壞我們的東西,所以很多心理治療師和其他廣義的治療師藉由幫助他人釋放破壞性的情緒或行為扮演毀壞者的角色。正向的破壞,其力量是非常巨大的療癒和自由。
至於毀壞者的陰暗面會展現為,破壞成為它自己的結束(沒接著重建)。一個人沉醉於自己破壞的力量,而且對它上癮。毀壞者引起死亡、瘋狂而且虐待、攻擊個人和群體。它能顯現為一個國家摧毀另一個國家,或是破壞環境的人。如你將這陰暗的原型列入你的原型支持群中,你將能辨認出在你內在裡那破壞關係,或助長破壞他人夢想及潛力的態度及意見的心理模式。

宗教/神話:Angra Mainyu(邪靈) 或 Ahriman(暗黑魔神) (祆教中,永遠毀壞
善的惡神,邪惡的擬人化,死亡和疾病的傳送者);卡爾基(在印度教信仰,毗濕奴的最後化身,騎著白馬從天而降摧毀邪惡,更新世界,恢復正義);復仇三女神(希臘神話中的復仇神衹,會追蹤和虐待任何殺害雙親、兄弟或族人的人,把殺人者逼得發瘋);啟示錄中,四個騎在馬上的人(聖經新約啟示錄中的隱喻人物,代表戰爭、瘟疫、饑荒和死亡。)
Destruction and Reconstruction is another way of describing the Death and Rebirth cycle of life. Systems and structures must be dismantled so that new life can be born. Myths and legends about gods and goddesses bringing destruction to the earth are common to all traditions. Yahweh destroyed the world through the great Flood and rained fire and brimstone on Sodom and Gommorah. In the Hindu tradition, the goddess Kali, generally pictured wearing a belt made of dismembered arms and a necklace of human skulls, represents the positive power of destruction, annihilating ignorance and maintaining the world order. The god Shiva, Kali’s male counterpart, destroys in order to create.
The impulse to destroy and rebuild is archetypal. We are bound to that cycle and therein lies the learning. Destruction also refers to releasing that which is destroying us, and, so, many therapists and other healers serve the role of the Destroyer by assisting others to release destructive emotions or behavior. The power of positive destruction is enormously healing and liberating.
In its shadow manifestation, destruction becomes an end in itself, and one becomes intoxicated with one’s own destructive power and addicted to it. The Destroyer generates death, madness, and abuse and targets individuals and groups. It can manifest as a nation that destroys other nations or people who destroy the environment. To count this shadow archetype as part of your support group, you will be able to recognize a pattern within your psyche that destroys relationships or promotes attitudes and opinions that destroy others’ dreams or potential.
Films: Jack Palance in The Sign of the Pagan; William Holden in The Wild Bunch; Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs; Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List; Richard Baseheart in Hitler.
Religion/Myth: Angra Mainyu or Ahriman (in Zoroastrianism, the eternal destroyer of good, personification of evil, conveyor of death and disease); Kalki (in Hindu belief, the final incarnation of Vishnu, who will descend from the sky on a white horse to destroy the wicked, renew the world, and restore righteousness); the Furies or Erynies (avenging deities of Greek myth who pursued and persecuted anyone who killed a parent, brother, or fellow clansman, by driving the murderer mad); the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (allegorical figures in the New Testament Book of Revelation, or Apocalypse, who symbolize war, pestilence, famine, and death).