Ultimately, we long to resolve this disconnect with our ancestral wisdom. Jung pointed out this relationship between the wounded anima/animus in the personal and collective unconscious and our crises of modernity (Jung 1968). To guide any permanent cognitive shift, humanity has historically and intuitively employed the use of archetype and symbol to give mean- ing to our lives and inform our transformations. To alleviate environmental destruction and the human cost of patriarchal capitalism, a global shift in consciousness is necessary to place life over material wealth instead of the cultur- ally dominant inverse value system of profit over life. The human and ecological costs of patriarchal capitalism are the result of placing material wealth over life, just as the masculine is placed over the feminine. A robust study of the ecofeminist archetypes in ancient goddess literature, particularly the Sumerian myth of Inanna, can assist in facilitating the consciousness shift necessary to resolve the wounded anima/animus in our collective unconscious to mitigate climate catastrophe, ecocide, and associated human costs of unfettered capitalism.
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