| Head from the video game Silent Hill 2 has | | | | represents how James essentially |
| remained the Silent Hill series’ iconic | | | | ‘executed’ his wife. |
| monster. This is most probably due to the | | | | Pyramid Head also has a secondary |
| originality of the monster as well as the complex | | | | representation associated with oppressive |
| psychological implications of it. While there are | | | | masculinity by having a clearly phallic appearance. |
| quite a few good attempts at analysis around, | | | | This is both in terms of its general appearance; |
| there are some implications that seem to have | | | | with its head essentially representing the glans of |
| been missed. Herein, the significance and | | | | male anatomy, as well as the weapons it uses all |
| complexity of Pyramid Head will be explored. | | | | being long, stabbing weapons of some kind or |
| Pyramid Head serves as a manifestation of what | | | | another. It is no mistake that James eventually |
| Jung would call the Shadow Archetype. This is | | | | comes to wield Pyramid Head’s blade, |
| basically the repressed negative aspects of every | | | | which is effective against anything that has |
| human being and in Silent Hill represents the | | | | experienced oppressive masculinity such as Eddie. |
| repressed negative aspects of James Sunderland1. | | | | Near the end Silent Hill 2, James must essentially |
| To represent James Sunderland’s Shadow | | | | fight two Pyramid Heads. This is because he has |
| Archetype, the monster Pyramid Head draws | | | | murdered, or believes he has murdered, two |
| upon a relatively wide selection of concepts. | | | | people. Thus, when defeated, one of the Pyramid |
| In terms of its appearance, Pyramid Head first | | | | Head monsters has a rusted sphere, representing |
| draws upon the image of an executioner from | | | | the murder of Mary, and one has a crimson |
| the medieval ages. As Executioners are almost | | | | sphere, representing the murder of Eddie. |
| exclusively male and associated with oppressive, | | | | References: |
| masculine laws, Pyramid Head represents James | | | | 1.Jung, C.G. (1938). "Psychology and Religion. |
| Sunderland’s oppressive masculinity. It also | | | | |