following this jungian model , it is the premise of a book written in 1984 called return of the goddesses , by edward c. whitmont that , fed unconsciously and motivated by archaic emotions and instinctual habit patterns of a deeper mytho-magical state of which it is unaware , the collective patriarchal ego is operating in increased maladaptation ; that the analytic/ rational and owner/ materialist trends which are its expression have caused contemporary man to become profoundly estranged from both nature and himself ; and consequently to be at grave risk .