The Myth of the Handless Maiden
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Like most fairy tales, The Handless Maiden by the Brothers Grimm, reflects a compensatory psychic function for the culture, uncanny in its relevance to our troubled times. It is one of the most complete stories of individuation. This talk explores the wounding of the feminine by the patriarchal shadow, in both men and women, and how to recover the sensual and feeling functions of the psyche, through the mytho-poetic lens of the Handless Maiden.
Speaker Bio:
Raïna Manuel-Paris is the product of a French father and a mother from the Dominican Republic. She has an MFA from Columbia in Film and a Ph.D. in Myth and Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a documentary filmmaker. Her documentary The Bridges of My Father was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009. She also produced and starred in the one-woman show Anaïs, based on the diaries of Anaïs Nin, which was performed in America and Europe. She has taught Myth, Ritual, Psychology and Creative Writing for the last 18 years. She taught for 15 years at the Art Institute, and she is an adjunct professor at Pacifica. She also teaches at Studio School and PRS. She is part of the Joseph Campbell Writers Room, has lectured for the Joseph Campbell Roundtable, and has written for Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought and the Joseph Campbell Foundation. She is a published author of nonfiction (The Mother-to-Be's Dream Book: Understanding the Dreams of Pregnancy), numerous articles, a screenplay, poetry, and has recently completed her first novel. She offers her The Cradle and The Crown seminars on a regular basis, and she gives Tarot readings from her unique alchemical perspective. She is a student of the Frame Drum and of Natural Horsemanship. She divides her time between Ojai and Los Angeles.
Wonderful talk. The song at the end brought me to tears. So very beautiful.
Thank you for this. I am losing functioning in my hands due to tremors and it’s a progressive condition. My soul recognizes that it is bloody. Thank you for this.
In these stories the devil , is another word for misfortune. As in the devil changing the letter while the messenger slept. The misfortune and how we deal with these problems over time can forge who we are into the gold sword or we can be broken from fear , refusing to grow we stagnate into pergatory. The devil can also be found in the evil that men do , as well as the aspects of ourselves that we fail to overcome. The result of going against our true will which is sin , this also opens us up to the slings and arrows of outrageous misfortune witch is the devil. These are the general aspects of what we call the devil , witch is different from Lucifer . I know the lecturer knows all this , I share this only as an example of how the devil has been used in stories through the ages .
beyond...… DIVINE !!!!!!!!
Bravo .. delightful. Thank you.
Brilliant. I just read women who run with the wolves that brought me here. Does anyone know the name of the poem recited at the end of the lecture?
That was Raina's own poem. Thank you for watching.
The best♥️
Amazing lecture , The story of the handless maiden made me think of Titus . But the daughter was fitted with tree branches.
Then Titus lost a hand , very sad. They say you find out who your friends are when you got no hands , because they are the ones who help you wipe your ass hahahahahah.
oh man I wished they would've had a better mic for the singing, but this was very good from start to finish
Why were these Grimm tales always so morbid, I wonder.
Very interesting. Thank you!
BEauTiFuL ✿♡✿ THanK YoU for SHaRing