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The author links the replacement of the great goddess cults by patriarchical religion to the prominence of the oedipal Father in Freud's thinking and the bi-polar Great Mother in Jung's work. Cornes raises the question whether this represents an enactment of conflict between the archetypes of male and female deities. The Freud-Jung correspondence is quoted in identifying and exploring this material. Cornes examines the replacement of the earlier matriarchal cults by the Father God Yahweh in Judaism, and wonders if the transition occurred in response to "intolerable anxiety" elicited by the image of the "bad" mother. It is noted that while both Freud and Jung became absorbed in mythology with its ancient deities, a polarization arose which appeared to be linked to male versus female deities. Cornes's notion is that the suppression of the maternal deities was associated with images of her as witch and ogress, replacing her previously positive images. Patriarchial religions arose partly as an effort to suppress goddess cults. The popular focus on "father-son dynamics" in Freud's relation to Jung bypasses the equation of god-Oedipus with goddess-Sphinx. The growing controversy between Freud and Jung is seen in the light of theoretical and archetypal differences: Freud-Yahweh and Jung-bipolar Great Mother. Freud's interest in the mystical (which Cornes associates more with a great-mother than a father-god) led him to visit a medium, and he found the experience both fascinating and frightening.