I think it is important to become aware of the patriarchal dominant operating within the psyche in order to differentiate it from a new masculine perspective.  I believe this moves toward the father and mother complex and both of those need to be resolved for the emergent feminine, anima, and the new masculine, animus within each of us.  “The outworn mother and father complexes must be left behind if we are to find our own lives,” (Marion Woodman, 1990, p. 69). Woodman (1990) wrote about “a new creation based upon a feminine consciousness as the receiver of a newly emergent masculine,” (p. 15).  She later goes on to describe that what we are leaving behind is the old parental images that keep us trapped and infantile.

 

The old petrifying mother is like a great lizard lounging in the depths of the unconscious.  She wants nothing to change.  If the feisty ego attempts to accomplish anything, one flash of her tongue disposes of the childish rebel.  Her consort, the rigid authoritarian father, passes the laws that maintain her inertia…. These outworn parental images wield power that inhibits personal growth… Men and women who are unconsciously trapped in power drives have no individual freedom, nor can they allow freedom to others.  Women can be worse patriarchs than men. (pps. 17-18)

 

I am imagining patriarchal culture that we are socialized within much the way Woodman describes.  That to have a new relationship to a conscious masculine and feminine, we must first become conscious to the old patriarchal model and the roles that both the archetypal mother and father play and how they strive to maintain their power.  This is why I think it is important that both the masculine and feminine develop together, but separately.