It took me a day to watch "Deadly Woman", and I loved Beth Ann and Lucy Liu very much, and I was more interested in Taylor than her. Decided to take a full time and share my thoughts.
Taylor lives in 2019, and her lifestyle is more edgy than the average — with a husband and different same-sex lovers. She and her husband made rules for this open marriage, such as she could not be emotionally attached to her lover. If it weren't for Jade's intervention, maybe this way of life would have continued, after all, the triangle relationship is the most stable. Some viewers asked why a strong woman like Taylor would choose a "green tea bitch" like Jade and a "soft man" like ELI. The question is good, but the answer is a bit complicated to analyze. Perhaps, some theories from Jungian psychology can be explained.
Tate's "male side" and partners' "female side"
Regarding gender, most people's concept is either "male" or "female", there is no dispute. But Jung believed that from the point of view of self-consciousness, individuals of different genders all identify with their biological sex (with a few cases inside and outside), and the unconscious carries the "personality" of the opposite gender. In the male unconscious there is the female "Anima", and in the female unconscious there is the male "Animus". Anima and Animus refer to Jung's image-creating functions of the transcendent mind. They can form and are closely related to society.
America in 2019 is radically different from the status of women in the 1960s. Modern women are no longer confined to kitchens, churches and bedrooms. They receive higher education, pursue their careers, and venture far and wide to tap and unleash their abilities and powers like never before. The power of the female animus (male face) is becoming more prominent. Tyler's Animus side is fully developed, it is masculine, bold, aggressive, decisive, and dominant. It is precisely because the Animus entered the consciousness from the unconscious, and the originally suppressed energy was transformed into a positive and creative energy. In such a competitive business society, Tyler was able to rank among the upper classes, have a decent career, and make his own way. Power for a mansion.
In choosing a partner, Jung said, as long as the anima and the animus are unconscious, we will find ourselves strongly attracted to others, usually the opposite sex who are similar to our inner image. "We unconsciously project our inner image onto another person, and that person instantly becomes the 'right person' we've been hoping to meet, a soul mate. Those qualities that are missing in ourselves are in the person we love. He or she is all we need to feel whole and we expect this person to fill the void in our heart and family. Of course the person we are obsessed with takes the form of an 'ideal' in our minds Appearance, we are more interested in its external appearance than its true inner appearance.”
Since Taylor's Animus is too powerful, when it comes to choosing a partner, she chooses those that make up for her repressed parts—the feminine side, the feminine, the tender, the weak.
Well, let's look at Taylor's husband, ELI. Compared to Taylor's strong, he is weak, from character to social development attributes. Tyler went out to work hard. He kept the script at home all day (no more than a few lines a day), and depended on Tyler for food, clothing, housing and transportation. The traditional "male masters outside and female masters inside" is the opposite of this family.
Taylor's lover, Jade, was attracted to her by her beauty and her typically feminine (albeit fake) femininity.
Subconsciously, Taylor expects her partner (husband or lover) to fill the void in her heart and family. Jade's appearance met her expectations. After that, her role for Jade was defined as family.
Stay tuned for the next theoretical analysis.
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