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Hans Thoma - Es werde Licht, 1884.

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Meredith Monk, 1974.

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Rudolf Bockelmann Wotan-Walküre 1933

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[my grandfather's photo :: from my flickr files]

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More and more I tend to see the soul expressing itself in body symptoms – in the way the body moves, in the dreams. I see it almost as a prisoner with the complexes squeezing in to take the life out of it.

So, I try to do the mirroring that the parents were not able to do. The soul just became more and more encased.

It wasn’t heard in a child’s body. It wasn’t seen. And that’s because the parents often have their own agenda as to what the child is, so they want it to act and speak in a certain way. The result is that the soul goes underground. I see therapy as an attempt to reconnect what that child has lost, the soul child.

- MARION WOODMAN

[Analytical Psychology: Theory and Practice]

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Rusalka, 1901 Růžena Maturová (in the title role)

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Source details and larger version.

You’d think I’d have a larger collection of vintage spooky hearse imagery.

#death

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From our stacks: Illustration for "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" from Rainbow Gold. Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls By Sara Teasdale With Illustrations By Dugald Walker. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.