ABSTRACT
The “dark feminine” is an emerging cultural dominant within the collective, one which can be understood through a meditation on the mythology of Lilith. Clinicians tend to assume that the rage characteristic of the dark feminine is exclusive to women’s individuation and transformation. Yet patriarchy, and its corresponding repression of the feminine, impacts all gender identities. The current emergence of the dark feminine may be symbolic of a necessary transformational process arising from within the old patriarchal order, something which can be illustrated through personal and clinical examples.
