p. 9
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Ophelia is a little walking owl, bewitched by her unconscious feminine, her father, and what "they say." She never finds her own voice. She never finds her own body or her own feelings and therefore misses life and love in the here and now. Gradually the waters of the unconscious to which she is "native and indued" swallow her.
— Marion Woodman
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Ophelia is a little walking owl, bewitched by her unconscious feminine, her father, and what "they say." She never finds her own voice. She never finds her own body or her own feelings and therefore misses life and love in the here and now. Gradually the waters of the unconscious to which she is "native and indued" swallow her." in the context of "p. 9" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Marion Woodman" (Quotes, The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter (1980): The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine (Inner City Books, 1980, )
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About Marion Woodman
Marion Woodman (born on the 15of Agust1928) is a mythopoetic author and women's movement figure. She is a Jungian analyst trained at the Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland.
About Marion Woodman
Marion Woodman (born on the 15of Agust1928) is a mythopoetic author and women's movement figure. She is a Jungian analyst trained at the Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland.
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