ABSTRACT
Marion Woodman is the first to admit that a great part of herself resisted this illumination, but the overall psychological momentum of Bone is irrefutably one from unconsciousness to consciousness, repression to self-transparency. Woodman says in the opening words of Bone, the "shattering" effect of her illness is the means by which she assumes a path to "wholeness". A great part of Bone, especially its most pressingly affective moments, comes in the form of a prayer to Sophia. Sophia is the name that Woodman uses to describe the dissenting work that she conducts on behalf of the "feminine". Woodman's response to the corrosive powers of Pauline's insight is at best noncommittal, and the conversation quickly turns from Woodman's psyche to the psyches of other unnamed "women". That "feminism" is surely what Woodman elsewhere calls a "projection". If we Bone entirely from Sophia's perspective, everything about Woodman's psychic life is answerable to the lucidity of consciousness.
