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  • Addiction to Perfection

  • Studies in Jungian Psychology
  • By: Marion Woodman
  • Narrated by: Rebecca Sands
  • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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Addiction to Perfection

By: Marion Woodman
Narrated by: Rebecca Sands
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"This book is about taking the head off an evil witch."

With these words, Marion Woodman begins her spiral journey, a powerful and authoritative look at the psychology and attitudes of modern woman.

The witch is a Medusa or a Lady Macbeth, an archetypal pattern functioning autonomously in women, petrifying their spirit and inhibiting their development as free and creatively receptive individuals. Much of this, according to the author, is due to a cultural one-sidedness that favors patriarchal values—productivity, goal orientation, intellectual excellence, spiritual perfection—at the expense of more earthy, interpersonal values traditionally recognized as the heart of the feminine.

Marion Woodman's first book, The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, focused on the psychology of eating disorders and weight disturbances. It has been critically acclaimed for its "sense of the Earth Mother and its recognition of the feminine principle in the Holy Spirit" (Margaret Laurence, author of The Stone Angel), and for its "eye-opening insights into the relationship between the individuation process of a woman and the state of her body" (Werner Engel, psychiatrist and medical director of the C.G. Jung Training Center Clinic, New York).

Here, with a broader perspective on the same general themes, Marion Woodman continues her remarkable exploration of women's mysteries through case material, dreams, literature, mythology, food rituals, rape symbolism, Christianity, imagery in the body, sexuality, creativity, and relationships. The final chapter, a discussion of the psychological meaning of ravishment (as opposed to rape), celebrates the integration of body and spirit, showing what this can mean to a woman.

©1982 Marion Woodman (P)2023 Marion Woodman
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Transformative

Love this! Thank you so much! I hope to see more of Marion W.’s books on Audible!

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Addiction as a deal with the devil

Fascinating exploration of eating disorders through a Jungian lens.
I don’t understand the criticism of the narrator. She does a fine job. A few obscure words like “enantiodromia” are mispronounced.

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Great book but poor performance

This is a great book but unfortunately the narrator has a bad performance for this book, I can even say that it is one of the worst recordings I have ever listened to. It is an inappropriate narration that does not suit such a serious and important book.

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Incredible

Amazing work — listen right now — she goes there… right into the chthonic realms and past them

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Stuffy nose voice

The book is amazing, but the stuffy nose voice of the reader makes it hard to focus on the content. I ended up buying a hard copy.

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