“We are all unconsciously bound to the wheel of fortune. It goes round and round and we go blindly around on it until one day something happens that wakes us up, face to face with ourselves. What for years we could not or would not see is made visible. The unconscious is made answerable to consciousness. The Self demands a reckoning: the ego must recognize what it has long feared and rejected. Whether we grow or wither in that encounter depends on whether we cling to our ego's rigid standpoint or whether we choose to trust the Self and leap into the unknown.” SelfEgoUnconscious Book:The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women Source: The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women
“The word 'feminine,' as I understand it, has very little to do with gender, nor is woman the custodian of femininity. Both men and women are searching for their pregnant virgin. She is the part of us who is outcast, the part who comes to consciousness through going into darkness, mining our leaden darkness, until we bring her silver out.” MenWomenConsciousnessGenderUnconsciousFeminineFemininity Book:The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation Source: The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation
“Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.” MeanBodyMotherValuesEatingConsciousNegativeTasksRefusePoisonUnconsciousDisorderDestroyingRescueTolerateResortsEating DisorderAllergicVomiting Author:Marion Woodman
“There is no sense talking about "being true to yourself" until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious.” HardVoiceTalkingHard WorkBeing TrueUnconsciousBe True To YourselfTrue To YourselfDifferentiate Author:Marion Woodman
“The connection between conscious and unconscious poses particular problems in the dancer because the body is the soul of action.” SoulProblemBodyActionParticularConsciousConnectionsUnconsciousDancerConscious And Unconscious Author:Marion Woodman
“The more you work with your dreams and your unconscious, and honor it, the more you understand it and it understands you. When you develop a relationship with your psyche this way, you begin to carry that energy into life and your relationships.” WayDreamEnergyHonorYour DreamsUnconsciousOur Relationship Author:Marion Woodman
