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This week here is a question, and the question is,

what are the dynamics in a woman's psyche of the collusion between the negative mother and the negative animus.

And for context, she says, I've had two similar dreams recently.

In the first, I'm at work, and my mother's in the office and is irritated and upset.

A man across the hall is trying to distract me from my work that I haven't

been able to do for a long time. In the second dream, my mother has her back turned to me,

never acknowledging me and holding up dinner while my brother is late off doing his own thing.

I think I read in one of Marion Woodman's books about how the

negative mother and negative animus can collude in a woman's psyche. Well, I think one of the

ideas that comes up naturally for me is how in fairy tales particularly,

there can be a problematic female figure,

an evil queen, a cursing stepmother.

And sometimes in the fairy tales,

that there are male figures,

huntsmen, soldiers, viziers, for instance, that are in service to the queen

and in a sense facilitating this problematic conflict in the psyche.

That's one environment where I think that dynamic is captured as a motif.

So that sparks in me the thought of, like in Snow White, the wicked queen hires the huntsman,

who is supposed to kill Snow White and bring back her heart.

In Hansel and Gretel, the father, he's not the agent of sending the children out into the woods,

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