The Wizard, the Egg and Fitchers Bird: Returning Spiritual Life to Nature in the Individuation of Women Howe Laurel
The Wizard, the Egg and Fitchers Bird: Returning Spiritual Life to Nature in the Individuation of Women Howe Laurel The animus remains a baffling, misunderstood force in women's psychology, but the…
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The Wizard, the Egg and Fitchers Bird: Returning Spiritual Life to Nature in the Individuation of Women Howe Laurel
The animus remains a baffling, misunderstood force in women's psychology, but the fairytale "Fitcher's Bird" brings his ambivalent, wizardly power and his psychic aims as the spirit of individuation into view, reaching into rich alchemical symbolism to do so. His negative side is symbolized in "Fitcher's Bird" by a wizard's longtime ability to abduct maidens from their parental homes with barely a touch by dressing as a beggar and appealing to their charity. The tale and its alchemical background are illuminated with dreams and psychic images from several women's lives, whose stories help us understand the profound personal and archetypal value of engaging creatively with the animus.Like the alchemical nature God, Mercurius, the animus is a life force, an archetype with two sides.
He displays a perverse dominance over the feminine that has built up in our