Suggesting that many men and women are addicted in one way or another because the patriarchal culture emphasizes specialization and perfection, Woodman proposes the recognition of the Jungian ideal of wholeness rather than perfection as the goal of psychological development. She examines the rituals of compulsive consumption and the split between body and spirit, whose healing requires the recovery of a feminine ground of being in which the language of the body itself must be heard. Her topics include

sacred and demonic ritual;
addiction to perfection;
obesity and anorexia;
assent to the goddess (the Great Mother);
rape and the demon lover; and
the ravished bride (on the integration of unconscious contents and the acceptance of one's own biological and spiritual identity).

The nature of the feminine is explored through case histories, dreams, mythology and literature, food rituals, body imagery, sexuality, and creativity.
Source: Cross Currents: An Annotated Bibliography http://www.cgjungpage.org/cc11.html

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“The true feminine is the receptacle of love. The true masculine is the spirit that goes into the eternal unknown in search of meaning....Without the true masculine spirit and the true feminine love within, no inner life exists. If we try to make perfection outside, try to concretize our unconscious inner ideal, we kill our imagination. We are left holding life in our rigid molds. to be free is to break the stone images and allow life and love to flow.”

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