Facing the Death Mother (Audio CD)
A Guide for Healing Our Feminine Selves and Moving from Paralysis to Full Vitality and Creativity
with Jungian Analyst and Author Massimilla M. Harris, Ph.D.
Recorded Live ( October 28th, 2011 )
On both a personal and a societal level, the wounding of the Feminine archetype is one of the most important psychological challenges facing women and men today. Undermining this great archetypal force creates space for the deadly influence of the Death Mother, an archetype that entraps us and paralyzes our initiative, spirits, creativity, and vitality. The evening lecture is a journey deep into the human and psychological dimensions of how the Death Mother shapes our culture, as well as how many of us are held captive by the internalized effects of the wounded mothering we experienced as children. This healing path is based on the classic myth of Medusa, enriched with personal experiences and psychological insights that open our direction toward healing and renewed personal consciousness. It will help us examine our assumptions about ourselves and our lives in order to move from paralysis to full vitality and creativity—and most of all to a deeper love of ourselves, others and life.
Dr. Harris draws upon a tapestry of mythical images, stories, and psychological truths, to guide our journey into this most important aspect of the dark and wounded Feminine to learn how this journey can transform and enrich our lives.
“The Death Mother wields a cold, fierce, violent, and corrosive power. She is rampant in our society right now.”
—Marion Woodman
“Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it. The first step is generally falling into the dark place... falling into something or being possessed by something.”
—Marie Louise von Franz
“Where love reigns there is no will to power; and where the will to power is paramount, love is lacking. The one is but the shadow of the other... an unconscious Eros always experiences itself as will to power.”
—C. G. Jung
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