Ukpoohbear
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‘So the sentence in a fairytale saying the queen can’t have any children always leads up to the special hero child. Now what would that mean psychologically? Why is there such a long barrenness before the hero child is born? Generally, first there is this period of depression, of emptiness, of nothing going on, and the longer this lasts, the longer you can reckon that an enormous amount of energy accumulates in the unconscious. For something important to come up, you need this period of nothing happening, so to speak, in consciousness. …So I even distrust what I wrote when I don’t have a depression before. I know it’s just cheap stuff, not truly from the belly, so to speak; for something good you first have to go down for a long period.’
— Marie-Louise von Franz, The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption
— Marie-Louise von Franz, The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption