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Essays & Articles

by Barbara Joy Laffey

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Honoring the Feminine: The Path to a Conscious Masculine

By Barbara Joy Laffey, PhD
ProQuest, 2019

This doctoral dissertation explores what it means to honor the feminine as a path to the conscious masculine and a direct experience of inner marriage. Includes a depth psychological analysis of excerpts from Missing Parts.

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In the Lap of the Mother

By Barbara Joy Laffey, Ph.D.
Immanence: The journal of applied myth, story, and folklore, Vol. 3 No. 1, 2018

“Once there was a woman who was so lost she could not even find herself. All she knew was that she had to keep walking the path.”

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White Dreamers and Black Madonnas: Unconscious Bias and White Privilege in Jungian Literature and Dreamwork

By Barbara Joy Laffey, Ph.D.
Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, Vol. 18, 2023

In this essay, I propose a new level of sensitivity to the inadvertent use of racist stereotypes in our writing and dreamwork.

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Depression

By Barbara Joy Laffey, Ph.D.
Echo: Journal of Creative Nonfiction, 2019

“You make a cup of tea, because that’s what you’re supposed to do. You sit at the table and stare out the window. The tea goes cold.”

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