ABSTRACT
Luce Irigaray in a paper entitled “Divine women”, writes from the perspective of what she and other women need in order to achieve a sense of their own personal wholeness. She links the dependence of women on their sons to the lack of a love-connection between mothers and their daughters, the lack of respect for women within society, and a consequent lack of a divine image of woman. C. G. Jung is writing from within a masculine perspective, and he assumes that for men and for women the process of increasing consciousness is the same. Jung understands the hope for a divine child, from the projected union in Heaven of Mary and Christ, as a symbol of consciously realized individuation in men and women. When Jung writes about contemporary women, he seems mainly to be writing about his own anima, experienced in projection, loathed and loved. Jung conceives of Logos as intrinsic to men, and Eros as intrinsic to women.
