The Eternal Feminine is defined by paired opposite archetypes

Evidence

The saintly mother has its correlation in the cruel stepmother, the angelic young girl has the perverse virgin: so Mother will be said sometimes to equal Life and sometimes Death, and every virgin is either a pure spirit or flesh possessed by the devil. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 654

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core statement of the binary structure of feminine archetypes: each positive myth has its negative twin, making ambivalence intrinsic to the category.
• XREF: Connects to other sources on Madonna/whore dualism and how binary pairs structure moral categories. — connects to: Woman’s conflicting archetypes range from demon and predator to muse and goddess; Lesbian relationships resist neat virile-feminine role divisions and mirror heterosexual pairings in their variety — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1075

Broader Connections

• Lesbian relationships resist neat virile-feminine role divisions and mirror heterosexual pairings in their variety #exemplifies (0.82) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1075