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Unholy Hungers
Encountering the Psychic Vampire
In Ourselves & Others
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Barbara E. Hort
Paperback:
276 pages
Publisher:
Shambhala; 1st ed edition (June 18, 1996)
Language:
English
ISBN-10:
1570621810
ISBN-13:
978-1570621819
EAN:
9781570621819
Book Description:
Vampires are not just imaginary creatures of fiction or legend—they really exist. They are
the people who, having never received love, settle for power instead, and become experts
at robbing others of their vital energy. We've all known them. In her fascinating study of
this dark psychological archetype, Barbara Hort looks to traditional myths as well as to
their modern equivalents in literature, theater, and film, following a blood-soaked trail to
such unexpected destinations as The Silence of the Lambs, "Snow White," and the
Broadway musical Gypsy. She offers insight into how psychic vampires originate, how we
allow ourselves to be caught in their clutches, and how we can protect ourselves from
their seductive influence.
About the Author
Barbara E. Hort, Ph.D., is a Jungian counselor in private practice in Portland, Oregon.
CONTENTS
1. MEETING THE PSYCHIC VAMPIRE
The Vampire as Archetype and Human Experience
The Profile of a Psychic Vampire
The Essence of the Psychic Vampire
Recognizing the Psychic Vampire
Becoming a Psychic Vampire
Why We Allow the Vampire to feed On Us
2. MASCULINE VAMPIRES AND FEMININE VICTIMS
Dracula
The Silence of the Lambs
The Charismatic Masculine Vampire
The Mediocre Masculine Vampire
The Oppressed Masculine Vampire
The Noble Masculine Vampire
Vampirism and the Father-Daughter Relationship
Deactivating the Masculine Vampire
3. FEMININE VAMPIRES AND FEMININE VICTIMS
Snow White
The Vampiric Veil of Feminine Disempowerment
A Modern Story of Feminine Vampirism
Gypsy
Deactivating the Feminine Vampire
4. FEMININE VAMPIRES AND MASCULINE VICTIMS
Oedipus Rex
Recognizing the Feminine Vampire
Vampirism and the Mother-Son Relationship
The Essence of the Feminine Vampire
Perseus, the Gorgon-Killer
Deactivating the Feminine Vampire
5. MASCULINE VAMPIRES AND MASCULINE VICTIMS
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Psychic Vampirism and Our Search for Perfection
The Grooming of a Vampire Children as Psychic Vampires
Audience/Performer Vampirism
Vampiric Perfectionism
6. THE REDEMPTION OF LOVE: GIVING UP DRACULA FOR SIR GAWAIN
Killing the Vampire
Seeking the Inner Beloved
Redeeming Projective Love
Protecting Relationships against Vampirism
Sir Gawain and Lady Ragnell
MEETING THE PSYCHIC VAMPIRE
THE BEAST has always been with us. For as long as our hearts have pumped blood, for
as long as our souls have glowed with life, for as long as we have yearned for love, the
beast has always been there. Sneering and stalking, drooling and scheming, it licks its
full, soft lips in anticipation of its next warm meal. For the beast is essentially a feeding
thing. Oh, yes, it has many faces, all of them human, and it has our endearing manners as
well. But those human graces are a camouflage born of necessity-they are the disguise
that enables the beast to prevail. Beneath its veneer of humanity, the core of the beast is
hunger, and survival is its only goal.
The beast hungers for survival, but not for life, as we know it, since life implies the
warmth of a beating heart and the light of a shining soul. The beast has neither heart nor
soul. It has only a. clever mind and an insatiable hunger. To survive, the beast must
appease its hunger, and it can feed only on the thing it lacks-the essence of life. So the
beast must prey upon us, the living. It must suck our lifeblood and drain our force.
If we are lucky, we will merely die. If we are less fortunate, we will succumb to the
deepest horror of the beast's predation, which is that most of its victims will not die.
Instead, we will become the thing to which we have fallen prey, and we will be compelled
to feed in the same parasitic way. Thus the feeding frenzy spreads, swelling into a bestial
legion whose progenitors haunted prehistory. The beast is ancient and global and
growing. It has many stories, and shapes without number, and all are like shadows elusive
and dim. But the name that we call the beast itself is clear and cold and precise. We call
the beast
vampire.
The story of the vampire is as old, as tangled, and as evil as any on earth. Our
contemporary model for the vampire is the beast whom we call Dracula, so I will begin
my storytelling with Dracula's tale. But first I must warn you. Do not be deceived into
thinking that Dracula's truth is the only truth of the vampire. Do not believe that the lurid
details of blood and fangs and bats and garlic are the sum of the vampire's existence. For
if you believe that these bits of lore can capture its essence, then you are in danger of
arming yourself against only the literal incarnation of the vampire and you risk falling
victim to another kind of vampire––the one who can infect and exhaust our souls.
Dracula himself tells us that he is only one member (and certainly not the last) of a vast
and ancient race. Now consider this: the creeping thing that we call vampire in English-
and French speaking countries is called
kukuthi
in Albania;
bhuta
in India;
vampiric
in
Holland; adze and obayifo in West Africa; vampiro in Spain and Italy; algul in Arab
countries;
wampior
in Poland;
hannya
in Japan;
mora
and
upir
in Slavic countries;
mrart
among the Australian aborigines;
upior
and
wampir
in the Ukraine;
civatateo
among the
Aztecs;
vampir
and
vudkolak
in Serbia;
swawmx
in Burma;
Blutsauger, NeintOter,
and
Dubbelsuger
in Germany;
mara
in Scandinavia;
ramanga
in Madagascar;
strygia,
wukodalak, vurkulada,
and
vrykolaka
in Greece;
katakhana
in Crete;
dearg-due
and .
leanhuam-shee
in Ireland;
aswang
in the Philippines;
ubour
in Bulgaria;
veripard
in
Estonia;
bruxsas
in Portugal;
tu
and
talamaur
in Polynesia;
moroii, varcolaci, zmeu,
murony, strigoi, priccolitch,
and
nosferatu
in Romania;
bajang, penanggalan,
and

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