Presented by
The Hong Kong Institute of Analytical Psychology
The notion of “femininity” is characterized by strong cultural aspects and therefore tends to act as a cultural complex both in women and in men.
The Mediterranean Great Mother has always been considered an image of great power and influence on the Italian psyche.
Marta Tibaldi’s provocative thesis is that the Mediterranean Great Mother Complex has turned now into a Small Mother Complex, that is in a devalued image of femininity that leads to images of “small men” and “small women”, “small feminine” in both genders, to the detriment of the individual and the collective experience of the desire.
