Sublime

Jules Cashford Jungian Analyst, London Coauthor of The Myth of the Goddess

When I think back on all that happened between Ulay and me, and Paolo and me, I often wonder what I contributed to each split. And I can’t help believing that the need to be loved and taken care of that my mother never satisfied was a hurt I brought to every man I was ever with—and something that they couldn’t fix.

Mi final de análisis se produjo cuando fue posible la tachadura de La Mujer, es decir, cuando pudo reconducirse el ideal femenino de La Mujer a una mujer. La revelación que detrás de la máscara no hay nada. Que lo femenino es la máscara misma.

may be into pornography, seeking the Goddess in the nearly infinite forms of the female body. Some men under the infantile power of the Mama’s Boy aspect of the Oedipal Child have vast collections of pictures of nude women, alone or making love with men. He is seeking to experience his masculinity, his phallic power, his generativity. But instead

A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of

In the place of the traditional notion of the self-made man—a construct that is gendered in its basic formation, patriarchal in its assumptions of how individuals come into being, and self-congratulatory in its tone—the belabored self presents itself as overworked both as the subject and as the object of its own efforts at self-improvement.

The Jungian writer Polly Young-Eisendrath

A child has a mood—he or she wants to play, or stay in the room, or be loony. The grownups have bigger moods. The abusive, or depressed, or alcoholic, or workaholic, or crazy parent has an enormous mood, and it is the only mood that counts. The children and the other parent have to adapt to that big mood, serve it, cater to it, sacrifice their mood

Billions of boys throughout the industrialized world will be adrift with a sense of purposelessness, depression and destructiveness—a “failure to launch”;