In short, the Ophelia Complex could be defined as feeling like nothing. A person suffering from this complex has no sense of self, importance, or soul. They feel that they
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The modern-day Ophelia I’m writing about does not resemble Shakespeare’s Ophelia biographically. She was not raised by an intrusive and overbearing single father. She was not socially isolated in a
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By Gabrielle Hamilton
NY Times Magazine 11.25.18
Gabrielle Hamilton is one of my favorite food writers. Or, maybe I should say one of my favorite short essayists. I don’t always love her
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By Elizabeth U. Harding
Nicholas-Hays, Inc. 1993
This is a book about the Hindu Goddess Kali. In the preface to her work Harding explains, “Kali, the divine Mother, has been largely misunderstood
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By Marion Woodman
Inner City Books, 1990
This book is about the different powers of the feminine and the masculine, and the unconscious suppression of both. It is not about the stereotypes
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The dream was to go to school in Zurich. At the time I wanted to be a Jungian analyst and combining that with my lifelong desire to live in Europe,
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The Ever Given, what a name for strong emotional defenses; ever giving what was given in the past, forever feeding old wounds. It’s also the name of a 220,000-ton cargo
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