Carl Jung said that nothing is more influential in a child’s life than the unlived life of the parent, an idea that Jungian psychotherapist Marion Woodman expands on as a component in many mother-daughter relationships, writing: “The mother…is often the one who gave up her hopes for her own creative life, and in her disappointment projected her unlived life onto her child. Spoken or unspoken, the grief and frustration of that sacrifice weigh heavily on the child. The mother felt locked in a cage of marriage, the bars of the cage being not her husband, whom she had already realized was not
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