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"BIRTH
AS METAPHOR" ~
from The International Journal
of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine Vol. 7 (4)
1995
 Giving
Birth and Being Born are archetypal experiences, and birth experience
itself creates an archetypal pattern which becomes a life pattern.
This paper explores the ways in which the experience of childbirth
represents an encounter with the archetype of transformation...
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"THE
WOUNDED MOTHER : CHILDBIRTH AS INITIATION AND TRANSFORMATION"~
from Pre- and Perinatal Psychology
Journal Vol. 11 (1) 1996
In
"The Goddess Within" a book about Goddess Psychology,
the authors ask the question:
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"How
is it that Demeter's sacred functions have come to be
so
demeaned and so neglected in the modern world?"...
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"CHILDBIRTH
AS INITIATION AND TRANSFORMATION : THE WOUNDED MOTHER"
~
from Harvest
: Journal for Jungian Studies Volume 43 (1) 1997
"We
are all the inheritors of the wounded Mother. The repression
of the
feminine in our culture has meant
that we have lost touch with our
instincts. In the denial of our birthrights however, patriarchy
strikes its
cruelest blow to the already wounded mother...." |
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"THE
WOUNDED MOTHER : LOSS OF SOUL IN THE EXPERIENCE OF CHILDBIRTH"~
from
Stella Maris : Marian and Jungian Themes Explored
(1) 1998
Jungian
psychology has deplored the repression of the feminine in our
modern society. Carl Jung spoke of the loss of the world of
the will of nature, and described many of our contemporary problems
as "loss of soul", which were as a result of
modern man's alienation from God and nature. I believe that
western civilization is nourishing a deep mother wound which
is but one rarely perceived aspect of the repression of feminine
consciousness..
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from
"THE PRENATAL AND BIRTH EXPERIENCE AND FUTURE LIFE"~
in The
Irish Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy Vol. 1 (2)
1996
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"Not
so long ago it used to be thought that the time in the
womb did not count...".
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