ABSTRACT
In this chapter I will outline how self-hatred can be seen as a manifestation of women’s aggressive energies, and also how ‘the self-hater’ can hold the seeds of agency, morality and psychological change. This perspective rests on an unlikely intersection of post-Jungian thought, critical psychology, and, as will emerge in subsequent chapters, feminist philosophy. These bodies of thought might seem like strange bedfellows, but as will become apparent in this and the following chapter, there is an important point of connection.
