“She was a woman who dared to break the rules” Lucy Ann Sykes and Mary Diane Moulton “Four Eternal Women” On the significance of the development of the Geisha / Courtesan archetype in a woman’s life. Based on the film “Dangerous Beauty” or literally translated “Dangerous Beauty” beauty.” It takes place in Venice. We get to know her from the episode when she sits at the table with her female relatives and reads a book, secretly, so that no one sees. Her name is Veronica. Her family is poor and soon she will have to work. Later we see him - the main character Marco. Marco's sister is the girlfriend of the main character. When Marco comes to the city, he meets the main character, in whom he hardly recognizes his sister's ex-girlfriend. Plot old as the hills. Both feel the attraction. The lovers do not enjoy their meetings for long, because Franco is about to get married. This is the law of this world. Both are in despair, because the power of feelings cannot be appeased... But still, two loving hearts unite despite the strict patriarchal foundations. This happens with the very peculiar “blessing” of Veronica’s mother. But it’s not so much about the plot, but about female archetype, and the plot is only an illustration of how the development of the archetype resolves the contradiction of love in a woman. The contradiction of love in question is precisely the product of the patriarchal world order, in which it is not feelings that occupy the main place, but rules. Veronica’s mother reveals to her the secret that that she is a former courtesan and introduces her to the life of courtesans and nuns as an alternative. Since Veronica's family is poor, a way to earn money is needed, and a sophisticated, educated girl is clearly not suitable for hard work. Gradually learning about the life of courtesans, Veronica discovers what opportunities are open to these women. But at the same time, later she reveals to her friend, who was married to an old man, and who turns to her with a request to give her daughter as a courtesan, that this can be dangerous, because lovers are not always adequate, and the life of a courtesan is short. The life of women of that period was limited only to home and family, they had no place where men reigned and only educated courtesans were those women who, explicitly or implicitly, decided the destinies of both men and cities. One of the events that impressed the heroine is free entry to the library! Veronica becomes not just courtesan and thanks to this finds a lover, she plays an important role in the life of all of Venice. So, I propose to look at what the development of the Geisha / Courtesan archetype gives to a woman. The first thing that the archetype gives is opportunities that were previously prohibited to a woman (the internal prohibition of the Father , not as a real father, but as a symbol of the patriarchal God-Father). Such opportunities primarily include: obtaining an education, the opportunity to learn through the study of books and also knowledge of one’s body, one’s sensuality. In the film we see how Veronica’s mother teaches aesthetic pleasure through works of art and the body (bubble bath, care, pleasure from food and drink). So, Geisha as an archetype is the road to pleasure. It should be noted that the difference between an earthly prostitute and a heteroa (geisha/courtesan) is huge! The latter were called saints because meeting a holy prostitute is not so much a physical as a spiritual experience. In the book “The Sacred Prostitute,” Nancy Qualls-Corbett describes sacred prostitution as a ritual of “coming of age” for well-bred virgins. That is, we are talking about initiation , initiation, about preparing a girl for the role of wife and mother. The trouble with our society is that again and again, from century to century, the spiritual is split off from the physical, robbing both women and men. Secondly, in this way, what the Geisha archetype gives is the opportunity development (primarily spiritual). The third is the initiation of a girl into a woman. And the third, which gives the development of the archetype and how this happens in the inner world of a woman, runs like a red line through the film. This seemingly paradoxical way allows lovers to connect, find each other(this is how women Anima and Animus are united in the inner world). Thus, externally (only externally, because a geisha is not an earthly prostitute, but one who chooses lovers herself), becoming available to all men, the heroine finds her only lover. In this the story shows how the archetype develops from unrealistic love for one man towards love for all men (men in general) and this is a necessary condition for resolving the conflict called “unrealistic love”. Only by loving a man in a general sense can a woman meet and find her personal love with a real man. That’s why initiation into Geisha is so important for a girl. In real life, we see many women who have never revealed this archetype, and even if they became wives and mothers, their lives are devoid of joy and a creative spiritual component. They feel like victims. This feeling originates in a patriarchal family. An example from work with a client: A young woman, already a mother twice, loves her husband, she is like an extension of her husband, experiences a huge fear of losing him, does not believe in her own happiness or in herself. Her hobby = her husband’s hobby. Very delicate, feminine in appearance, as a child, dancing on an imaginary stage, she received a message from her father: “Only prostitutes dance and sing (in terms of profession)!” She has an attitude of frivolity, the depravity of what is easy for her life and joy. I once sang, but I had problems with my voice, danced, and again got injured. What else can the body do to get rid of the connection with the attitude - break the connection (read “break the ligaments”). That’s how a woman loses herself , never developing the Geisha archetype, but without it she cannot become a full-fledged wife, not a full-fledged mother. If a woman’s development is disrupted at the Geisha stage, relationships will be disrupted. Women with an underdeveloped archetype become subordinate to a man and have difficulty expressing feelings both emotionally and physically. And in this regard, somewhere deep inside them there is a resentment towards the mother, who kept silent about something important, as if entering into an agreement with the father. The mother appears in therapy as the image of a wall, the very one that makes a man unattainable and love impossible . One of the ways of protection is for the girl to lie to her parents and gradually she loses herself in this lie. Therefore, every mother should open her daughter’s eyes to the world, to the truth about the world of men and give her a great gift in the form of revealing the Geisha archetype. And what next happens in the film? And then the heroine does the seemingly impossible and, thanks to her, Venice receives ships from the French king when the country is in danger from the Turks. The episode itself is very funny, because in the film there is a hint that the French king is not entirely normal, but even here the heroine, risking her life, finds a way out. The end of the film turns into a tragedy. Evil fate in the person of Franco’s envious friend (according to the plot of the film, the heroine once refused him), who perfectly illustrates the behavior of the negative Animus, gives the heroine into the hands of the Inquisition at the moment when the plague broke out in the city and operates on the fact that it is debauchery in the person of courtesans and Veronica, in particular, is the cause of the disaster. But in the end, the inquisitor gives up and leaves Veronica to the judgment of the city. This happens when, in response to Franco’s call in her defense, all the men of the city, including the bishop, rise up. So in the film and in the inner world of the woman, the courtesan is recognized not as something dirty, but as sacred, holy. The symbolism of this episode is that male society (the same plot unfolds as the archetype is acquired in the woman’s unconscious) recognizes a woman as equal to a man with respect and gratitude. This is how the female sacred is recreated and transformed I recommend the film for viewing especially to those women who have experienced the power of patriarchal foundations and found themselves in a state of victimhood. But I recommend watching not superficially, but with your inner eyes. I want to end with the words of the heroine’s mother: “Love love!” It is this rule that allows a woman to avoid dependence on men and remain faithful in her