Weaving Fate and Flesh
Dragana Favre
Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies May 16, 2026 DOI: 10.29173/jjs359s (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Keywords | Embodied cognition Psychic Individuation Identity music Numinous Articulation sociology Meaning existential The symbolic Adornment Aesthetics Psychoanalysis Femininity Spell Clothing Freak Enculturation Binary opposition Epistemology Jungian analytical psychology |
| Key points | Proposes that the Slavic Rozhanitsy archetypes serve as psychoid figures linking bodily processes and archetypal patterning, offering a mythopoetic framework for feminine temporality and menopause as symbolic transformation rather than deficit. |
Abstract
This paper explores the Slavic Rozhanitsy as archetypal figures who symbolically mediate feminine temporality, embodied cycles, and the individuation process within a Jungian and post-Jungian framework. Drawing on comparative mythology, cultural anthropology, and feminist depth psychology, it situates menstruation, fertility, and menopause as not merely biological phenomena but as thresholds for psychic transformation and symbolic integration. Clinical vignettes illustrate how Rozhanitsy motifs, weaving, spinning, measuring, can emerge in dreams and therapeutic encounters, offering patients a mythopoetic container for bodily suffering that contemporary biomedical models often pathologize. I propose the Rozhanitsy as psychoid figures linking bodily processes and archetypal patterning, extending Jung’s account into a somatic-clinical frame. This repositions menopause not as deficit but as a fateful re-weaving of feminine identity within an embodied Jungian hermeneutic.