![]() ![]() Lewis’s Til We Have Faces, a novel based on the myth of Cupid and Psyche, I remembered Estes’s myth readings and started to apply the technique to Lewis’s myth by seeing each character in the legend not as literal but as part of the “wild woman” archetype: the innocent, feminine Psyche the veiled, lonely narrator and protector the thinker, doubter, and loyal slave and the masculine, cruel, abusive king – each character, when viewed in this way, is a figurative metaphor for ourselves. ![]() For example, when anger started clouding my reading of C.S. This strategy transforms stagnant anger into meaning creating wisdom. I love how Estes uses each character in myth as a different aspect of women’s psyche. To breathe: “Yet if we live as we breathe, take in and let go, we cannot go wrong,” (173) she reminds me again and again. The fascinating examination and study of myths and archetypes centered around women have influenced my thinking, they have shifted the foundational trajectory of how I read, understand, and form ideas. ![]() “From her very flesh and blood and from the constant cycles of filling and emptying the red vase in her belly, a woman understands physically, emotionally, and spiritually that zeniths fade and expire, and what is left is reborn in unexpected ways and by inspired means, only to fall back to nothing, and yet be reconceived again in full glory.” Clarissa Pinkola Estes, pg 172Įstes’s book has become a sacred text for me. ![]()
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