Taurus art 1.10

Full-Figured Statuette, 35,000 Years Old, Provides New Clues to How Art Evolved. New York Times, May 12, 2009

Willem De Kooning (b. April 24, 1904)

Mother, mater, matter. Note the lack of feet, of locomotion, in the primitive female generative principal. My first dream in Jungian analysis was of a lady too fat to stand, in the parking lot of a supermarket, a group of us trying to help her up. My analyst, a sharp old thing now deceased named Greta van Fenema, (who knew Jung, gray hair in a bun, slacks), leaped to a high bookshelf and took down a volume with a large picture of the Willendorf Venus (11,000 years younger than the one pictured above). She explained my thralldom to the Great Mother archetype, and all the deplorable psychological and behavioral consequences ensuing.

Comments

[miriamne]

Greta Van Fenema, my analyst as well, and definitely sharp, perceptive with no bullshit. She got to it with startling acumen and zeroed in. The Red Book comes out soon .... it brings back memories

[Mark Shulgasser]

Hi Miriamne,

A Van Fenema graduate! Me, I'm a Van Fenema dropout. She was ruthless. I fled after a few sessions.

Best wishes, M