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Matriarcal or Uroboric Incest

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Let us discuss some basic aspect of ego formation: its appearence out of the uroboric round. The uroboric round is the realm of the primordial waters (you can listen to my Podcast on the Primordial Waters). I really recomend you the book: The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann. (Princeton University Press). Neumann was a friend of Jung and member of the Eranos Group.

We could understand the appearance of the ego from the unconscious through the myth of the emergence of an island from the primordial waters. Its appearance, however, is not permanent and definitive, especially at the beginning. The tides of the unconscious rise and the island is once again covered by the waters. Only a progressive systematization of consciousness leads to its permanence. To keep consciousness awake, a force of determination is necessary, which requires a display of psychic and physiological energy. For the appearance of consciousness it is necessary to exert an energy that moves the homeostasis of the organism to a new point of balance. The objectification morphisms that shape the world around an ego can revert to the latent or uroboric state at any moment of weakness or disease of the organism.

The first experiences of the ego are those that lead to its configuration as the center of the world, it is a force of centroversion. "I am the center of things", "the world arises and dies with me" are linguistic expressions of these first stages. In the uroboric phase preceding its appearance, the "I am" feels to be one with the world and proceeds through connections of magical causality with it (similarity and symbolic affinity).

According to Erich Neumann (Book mentioned. p.277), the ego that awakens is fundamentally passive and still tires with the actions of its awakening, so it has a tendency to revert to previous uroboric states, it tends to dissolve into the unconscious. He calls this uroboric incest. What is dissolved are the necessary tensions posed by the constraints that shape identity. It is a death in ecstasy, in samadhi. Incestuous regression plays a negative role in the life of the neurotic and a positive role in the life of the creative human. Whether it is positive or negative will depend on the intensity of the conscious formation as well as the stage of development in which the ego is.

This type of incest is present in its negative version in the majority of the population. Our culture favors it: room service as an ideal of life, remote control for all the objects that surround us, internet of things, etc.

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