Think About It 027: MARION WOODMAN

I always try to grasp the metaphor at the root of an addiction. That varies.  With food, it can be mother; with alcohol, spirit; with cocaine, light; with sex, union.  Mother, spirit, light, union — these can be archetypal images of the soul’s search for what it needs.  If we fail to understand the soul’s yearning, then we concretize and become compulsively driven toward an object that cannot satisfy the soul’s longing.

Conscious Femininity: Interviews with Marion Woodman (1993)


 

Use the link below to read about the life and work of Canadian author, feminist and psychologist MARION WOODMAN:

 

https://healthypsych.com/marion-woodman-pioneer-conscious-femininity-psychology/

 

 

 

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