The villain is the most captivating and intriguing of all archetypes. The hero would not exist without his darker counterpart, which reflects aspects of ourselves that we do not dare to acknowledge or confront, but which are present within all of us. The villain is often a mirror of the dark aspects of humanity, embodying qualities that are evil, harmful, greedy, selfish, and destructive. In recent times, villains can even become sympathetic, and possess redeeming qualities, making some of them oddly likeable despite their malicious intent and immoral actions, thus challenging our traditional notions of good and evil. This type of villain has never existed to the degree it exists in the 21st century, symbolising a major change in the collective unconscious—which speaks to a psychological experience that is common to us all. ⭐ Become a Patron (exclusive content): https://www.patreon.com/eternalised 📺 YouTube Member (exclusive content): null 🛒 Official Merch: null ☕ Donate a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/eternalised 📘 PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eternalisedofficial 📨 Subscribe to newsletter: https://eternalisedofficial.com/subscribe 📚 My personal library: https://eternalisedofficial.com/library 🎨 Access transcript and artwork gallery: https://eternalisedofficial.com/2024/03/26/the-psychology-of-the-villain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Frankenstein https://amzn.to/3IJV8uI ▶ Paradise Lost https://amzn.to/4csSmb1 ▶ Crime and Punishment https://amzn.to/3TJJqXa ▶ Batman: The Killing Joke https://amzn.to/4ao73dk ▶ Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde https://amzn.to/3ILIBXF ▶ A Wizard of Earthsea https://amzn.to/3ILPhFa ▶ The Prince https://amzn.to/4a7WNXe 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 Odysee ➔ https://odysee.com/@eternalised 📺 Rumble ➔ https://rumble.com/c/Eternalised 🐦 Twitter ➔ https://twitter.com/eternalised1 📷 Instagram ➔ https://www.instagram.com/eternalised_official 📘 Facebook ➔ https://www.facebook.com/eternalised 🎧 Podcast ➔ https://anchor.fm/eternalised ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used 1. Ambiment – The Ambient – Kevin MacLeod 2. Smoother Move – Kevin MacLeod 3. Virtutes Instrumenti – Kevin MacLeod 4. What We Don't Say – Scott Buckley 5. Sinister Dark Ambient - Dark Rage – CO.AG Music 6. Heartbreaking – Kevin MacLeod 7. Phase Shift – Scott Buckley 8. Dreams Become Real – Kevin MacLeod 9. Magnetic – CO.AG Music 10. As The World Fell – CO.AG Music Support the artists: CO.AG Music https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA Scott Buckley - https://www.scottbuckley.com.au/ (released under CC-BY 4.0) null Kevin MacLeod - https://incompetech.com/ null Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📝 Sources - Kushkaki, M. (2013). Unmasking the villain: A reconstruction of the villain archetype in popular culture. Master of Arts, San Diego State University. - Paulhus, D. L., & Williams, K. M. (2002). The dark triad of personality: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Journal of research in personality, 36(6), 556-563. - Faria, P. S. (2008). The journey of the villain in the Harry Potter series: an archetypal study of fantasy villains. - Martin Del Campo, M. (2017). Sympathy for the Devils: An Analysis of the Villain Archetype Since the Nineteenth Century. - The Psychology of Villains in Literature: Understanding the Motivations and Complexity of Antagonists by Chrissie) - Fallen Heroes: Sixteen Master Villain Archetypes - Tami D. Cowden - https://medium.com/@chrissteven743/the-psychology-of-villains-in-literature-understanding-the-motivations-and-complexity-of-23186c9bd601 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmAuplxrvSo -    • Villain Therapy   - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU7hdGKOGyk ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:46 The Meaning of Villain 2:40 The Oldest Form of The Villain 3:18 The Villain Archetype in Literature 11:00 The Superhero 12:26 Sympathy for the Villain 13:17 The Antihero 14:56 The Modern Villain 16:03 The Joker and Hyper-Sanity 19:55 Villains and The Dark Side 21:40 The Villain’s Journey 23:00 The Villain and The Hero 28:22 Villain: Mirror of The Dark Aspects of Humanity 32:56 The Villain Redemption Arc 33:18 The Dark Triad 36:20 The Tyrant 38:26 The Resentful One 40:19 The Traitor 41:30 The Sadist 41:58 The Criminal Mastermind 43:25 The Mad Scientist 43:54 The Jester or Trickster 44:20 The Terrible or Devouring Mother 44:50 The Femme Fatale 45:50 Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. #villain #archetype