Breast Cancer and the Descent: The Loss and Return of Spring

This article approaches breast cancer as an initiation into a healing process that provides the opportunity for the transformation of a basic fault in the personality. Breast cancer will be approached as a metaphor alerting one to a crises of interiority, a loss of connection to one's inner dim...

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Main Author: Golden-Alexis, Joan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V. [2005]
In: Journal of religion and health
Year: 2005, Volume: 44, Issue: 2, Pages: 227-239
Further subjects:B descent
B Ascent
B crisis in interiority
B Inanna
B Healing
B realm of metaphor
B velocity
B birth of possibility
B Breast Cancer
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Summary:This article approaches breast cancer as an initiation into a healing process that provides the opportunity for the transformation of a basic fault in the personality. Breast cancer will be approached as a metaphor alerting one to a crises of interiority, a loss of connection to one's inner dimension and one's feminine consciousness. This metaphor contains both the loss of the connection and the possibility of its recovery. The process involves a velocity of descent very difficult to endure; it involves a profound and accelerated unraveling of the rationality that previously served as a container stabilizing the ego. The perilousness of the descent imagery reflects the precipitousness of this unraveling. The precipitous descent is seen as an attempt of the soul to heal and reintegrate the personality by revisiting and illuminating a space abandoned long ago. The integration of this part of the personality results in a return of generativity, energy, and creativity.
ISSN:1573-6571
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of religion and health
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10943-005-2779-8