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Rediscovering Jung's words in a different light, including the experiences of past generations and the archetype analyzed in the tale of Vassillissa by exploring all kinds of psychic manifestations, from dreams to art, from fairy tales to religion: in this fable the archetype analyzed is the role of the mother. The gesture of sewing, time and practice, tell the sensitivity, concentration and patience of work traditional feminine, embroidery, thus becomes a practice, which in a subliminally therapeutic way allows you to mature thoughts about the existing. Laundry is the first task. It means restoring elasticity to the slack. The woman is harassed by the demands of the psyche that urges her to please the wishes of others. The acquired family is an intrapsychic ganglion that compresses the nerve of vitality, suffocates it, making it lose the ancient fire of art.
The patriarchal view squeezes the psychic force by machining it until it is extinguished. Vassillissa escapes submission, entering a new life that allows her to venture into initiation and begin to experience (the forest becomes a symbol of an ancient nature). This is the way back to the mother. A piece of soul that brings knowledge of the inner voice and the most intimate reason. She has the task of cleaning the hut and the courtyard, keeping her psychic environment clear, keeping her head clear and a place to work, bringing her ideas and projects to fruition. Cooked. You have to burn with passion, words, ideas and desire, for whatever you love. These are the cycles: purifying one's thinking, renewing one's values regularly; free the psyche from banalities, broom the ego; curing creative fire and cooking ideas systematically.
Nothing comes to help us resolve the situation. We must select and squeeze the truth out of it to draw nourishment from it. Stand on all fours. Learn to watch and tolerate fools less and less. She became aware of her stepmother and inhibiting sisters. Reshape the Shadow.
A negative aspect of the psyche can be dehydrated if it is kept in awareness. It is not possible to withhold awareness if you live with cruel people inside or outside. If you are surrounded by people who raise their eyes to the ceiling when you speak, you are with people who extinguish your passions and theirs.
(Some passages are taken from the book Women running with wolves, by C. P. Estès)