"from the box, sent by the gods to Pandora, which she was forbidden to open and which loosed a swarm of evils upon mankind when she opened it out of curiosity: a prolific source of troubles."  Merriam-Webster's Dictionary

What the woman (Eve) did in the Garden in Eden, the praxis of the dialectical process—self-justification (rationalization i.e. choosing an open ended and non-directed way of thinking; Rogerian Psychology) that eating of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil would satisfy her hearts desire (resolution of a self-environmental relationship rift i.e. physiological, self-esteem, and self-actualization; Maslow hierarchy of "felt" needs), Adam harkening to her voice, also imbibed—was a Pandora's Box moment which "loosed a swarm of evils upon mankind."