Marion Woodman Explained

Marion Woodman
Birth Name:Marion Jean Boa
Birth Date:15 August 1928
Birth Place:London, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:London, Ontario, Canada
Occupation:Nonfiction writer
Subject:Psychology, eating disorders, women's issues, sexuality
Spouse:Ross Woodman (?-2014; his death)
Relatives:Bruce Boa (brother) Fraser Boa (brother)

Marion Jean Woodman (née Boa;[1] August 15, 1928 – July 9, 2018) was a Canadian mythopoeic author, poet, analytical psychologist and women's movement figure. She wrote and spoke extensively about the dream theories of Carl Jung.[2] [3] [4] Her works include Addiction to Perfection, The Pregnant Virgin and Bone: Dying into Life.[5]

Early life and education

Woodman was born on August 15, 1928, in London, Ontario,[6] the eldest of three children of Ila (née Phinn) and Andrew Boa, a clergyman.[7] She completed a degree in English literature at the University of Western Ontario.[8] [9] Later in life she studied psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland.

Career

Woodman taught high school English for more than twenty years. Suffering from anorexia, she took a sabbatical with her husband a college professor, and traveled first to India and then to England, where she became interested in the theories of Carl Jung. She entered analysis with Jung's British colleague, E. A. Bennet.[1] She subsequently enrolled in the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, and trained as an analyst.[10] [11]

In 1982, Woodman wrote a book about analytic psychology, Addiction to Perfection, which was published by the new company, Inner City Books, set up by her colleague Daryl Sharp.[8]

Woodman continued to write on the subject of feminine psychology, focusing on psyche and soma.[12] [13] She has also lectured internationally. She has written collaboratively with Thomas Moore, Jill Mellick and Robert Bly.

Woodman was listed in Watkins' Mind Body Spirit Magazine in 2012 as the 100th most spiritually influential living person.[14] Her collection of audio and visual lectures, correspondence, and manuscripts are housed at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, OPUS Archives and Research Center, in Santa Barbara, California.

Personal life

Her husband Ross Woodman was Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is the author of The Apocalyptic Vision in the Poetry of Shelley, and Sanity, Madness, Transformation: The Psyche in Romanticism, both published by the University of Toronto Press. Ross Woodman died at their home in London, Ontario, on 20 March 2014.

Her younger brothers were the actor Bruce Boa and the Jungian analyst Fraser Boa, both of whom predeceased her.

In November, 1993, Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. She recorded the subsequent two years of cancer treatment in a journal, which was later published as Bone: Dying into Life. She died at her home in London, Ontario, on July 9, 2018, aged 89.[4]

Notable books

References

  1. News: Carey . Benedict . Marion Woodman, Explorer of the Feminine Mind, Dies at 89 . . 19 July 2018.
  2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/marion-woodman-profile/ "Woodman, Marion (Profile)"
  3. Active Interest Media, Inc.. Yoga Journal. Active Interest Media, Inc.; November 1988. . p. 51.
  4. Web site: Marion Woodman • August 15, 1928 – July 9, 2018 - PGIAA. 10 July 2018. 31 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180826122414/https://pgiaa.org/marion-woodman-%e2%80%a2-august-15-1928-july-9-2018-2/. 26 August 2018. dead.
  5. News: Renowned London psychologist and author Marion Woodman, dead at 89 . 4 May 2022 . . July 13, 2018.
  6. Web site: Birth data for Marion Woodman. 2007-04-15 .
  7. News: Carey . Benedict . Marion Woodman, Explorer of the Feminine Mind, Dies at 89 . . 19 July 2018.
  8. Thomas Kirsch. The Jungians: A Comparative and Historical Perspective. Psychology Press; 2000. . p. 114.
  9. News: Carey . Benedict . Marion Woodman, Explorer of the Feminine Mind, Dies at 89 . . 19 July 2018.
  10. Pythia Peay. America on the Couch: Psychological Perspectives on American Politics and Culture. Lantern Books; 1 April 2015. . p. 166.
  11. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/pythia-peay/jungian-analysis-eating-d_b_578890.html "Jungian Analysis, Eating Disorders and the ‘Great Work’"
  12. Donald Kalsched. The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit. Taylor & Francis; 25 February 2014. . p. 109.
  13. https://parabola.org/2016/01/29/marion-woodman-and-the-search-for-the-conscious-feminine-by-patty-de-llosa/ "Marion Woodman and the Search for the Conscious Feminine"
  14. http://www.watkinsbooks.com/review/watkins-spiritual-100-list-2012 "Watkins’ Spiritual 100 List for 2012"
  15. News: LEAVING MY FATHER'S HOUSE: A JOURNEY TO CONSCIOUS FEMININITY . 4 May 2022 . . April 1, 1992.
  16. News: Leaving My Father's House . 4 May 2022 . . March 30, 1992.
  17. News: THE MAIDEN KING: THE REUNION OF MASCULINE AND FEMININE . 4 May 2022 . . September 1, 1998.
  18. News: Maiden King . 4 May 2022 . . September 28, 1998.
  19. Faflak . Joel . Review: Bone and the Case of Marion Woodman . The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal . November 2001 . 20 . 3 . 59–69 . 10.1525/jung.1.2001.20.3.59 . 10.1525/jung.1.2001.20.3.59 . 4 May 2022.
  20. News: Bone: Dying Into Life . 4 May 2022 . . September 4, 2000.
  21. News: SITTING BY THE WELL: Bringing the Feminine to Consciousness Through Language, Dreams and Metaphor . 4 May 2022 . . June 4, 2001.

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