M.G. Lord Quote

Like the kachinas, Barbie is both toy and mythic object—modern woman and Ur-woman—navelless, motherless, an incarnation of the One Goddess with a Thousand Names. In the reservoir of communal memory that psychologist Carl Jung has termed the collective unconscious, Barbie is an archetype of something ancient, matriarchal, and profound.

M.G. Lord

Like the kachinas, Barbie is both toy and mythic object—modern woman and Ur-woman—navelless, motherless, an incarnation of the One Goddess with a Thousand Names. In the reservoir of communal memory that psychologist Carl Jung has termed the collective unconscious, Barbie is an archetype of something ancient, matriarchal, and profound.

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