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The Flame of Enthusiasm
“When the feminine and our vitality become lost to power drives and life becomes a wasteland, the stage is set for the mythic world to give rise to a hero to transform and revitalize the situation. The mythic hero is a metaphor for our struggle to transform our consciousness and bring new life to ourselves.”
— from Into the Heart of the Feminine by Massimilla Harris, PhD and Bud Harris, PhD
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No one is older than the one who has extinguished the flame of enthusiasm.
- Thoreau
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Too few opportunities for good experiences between a father and daughter pass on a legacy of non involvement and personal detachment. Her actions become inhibited, emotional development arrested and adult maturity faked… She is either so self-focused the other is not included or so other-focused that she is eliminated. This is what she picks up from the father not there for reciprocity of interaction.
In reaction a daughter might become defensive…her natural self absent…Defenses are forms of narratives, created in imagination and fantasy to support a positive sense of identity and personal worth when these are threatened by cruelty, hostility or indifference from those on whom we are most dependent.
