The hero as a god takes the form of dying saviour god, ruling father god, transcendent god or the Logos , and the devil god or demon. The psyche carries with it its history. How the post-Oedipal psyche deals with the animality crisis will depend upon what has happened in the separation and genderization crises. The tensions between separation anxiety and engulfment anxiety will form the basis for adult alienation and attitudes toward groups. Whether an adult is libertarian or communitarian in political orientation could well depend more upon the resolutions to the tensions between separation and engulfment anxiety than upon persuasive political argument.
Separation anxiety produces the desire to return to and merge with the mother.
This would entail the id re-engulfing the nascent ego. The genderization process ensures that the ego cannot return to lose itself in the feminine other. The object of the ego ideal shifts from the original mother symbiosis to a masculine other from which the feminine is excluded. The shift in development and emphasis of the psyche then follows the path from the archetypal mother to the archetypal father, to disembodied mind, to the brotherhood of the collective as object of the ego ideal.