Breast Cancer and the Descent: The Loss and Return of Spring |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Joan?Golden-AlexisEmail author |
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Institution: | (1) Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, 190 Spring Street, New York, NY USA, 10012 |
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Abstract: | This article approaches breast cancer as an initiation into a healing process that provides the opportunity for the transformation of a basic fault in the personality. Breast cancer will be approached as a metaphor alerting one to a crises of interiority, a loss of connection to one s inner dimension and one s feminine consciousness. This metaphor contains both the loss of the connection and the possibility of its recovery. The process involves a velocity of descent very difficult to endure; it involves a profound and accelerated unraveling of the rationality that previously served as a container stabilizing the ego. The perilousness of the descent imagery reflects the precipitousness of this unraveling. The precipitous descent is seen as an attempt of the soul to heal and reintegrate the personality by revisiting and illuminating a space abandoned long ago. The integration of this part of the personality results in a return of generativity, energy, and creativity. |
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Keywords: | breast cancer crisis in interiority descent ascent Inanna healing velocity birth of possibility realm of metaphor |
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