If she isn’t projecting them onto her “loved ones,” she is turning them against herself. Living by principles is not living your own life. It is easier to try to be better than you are than to be who you are. If you are trying to live by ideals, you are constantly plagued by a…
Often the wisdom of the body clarifies the despair of the spirit. For the first time in history, men and women are seriously exploring the possibilities of relationships based on separateness rather than togetherness. Instead of clinging to Yahweh, to a rigid set of laws established by a jealous Father-God who will rant in fury…
In her insanity, she utters more truths than she is consciously capable of. Ophelia goes mad. In her insanity, she utters more truths than she is consciously capable of. Alone amidst the courtiers, she stands in bedraggled dress and weed-braided hair a little bewitched bird her eyes empty of everything but the demon that possesses her. Pathetically…
The child is not acknowledged as an individual in her own right. Anne’s childhood behaviour was somewhat at variance with the sweet, compliant, considerate attitude of most anorexics. She was something of a rebel from the beginning because of her artistic creativity. She was concerned with “doing everything right and fitting in,” but her sense…
Only when her ego is firmly rooted in her own feminine feeling can a woman be released from her compulsive behavior. Esther Harding, referring to the ego complex preceding the formation of a conscious ego, writes: Where the ego is inadequately developed in modern adults and is not made conscious, we find that the ego…