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Podcast: Myth in the Mojave
Episode: Vasilisa the Beautiful and the Symbolic Life
Description: In the Russian fairy tale “Vasilisa the Wise,” a dying mother gives her little daughter a doll and tells the girl to turn to it for help and comfort. The doll’s guidance turns out to be essential, which raises the question: what is the doll?When C.G. Jung was a boy, he carved a little manikin out of wood, dressed it in a wool coat, and kept it in his pencil case. He developed a set of rituals around the doll and the thought of it comforted him. The manikin personified his secret connection to psyche...