Most of the women who have paid were well aware of the methods of contraception. Jungian analyst Eva Pattis Zoya believes that in some cases an unwanted pregnancy is not so undesirable.
Jungian analyst Eva Pattis Zoya sees the deep meaning of termination of pregnancy in the fact that this experience reveals in a woman her genuine “I”.
Eva Pattis Zoya (Eva Pattis Zoja), Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer of the Institute of Jung (Switzerland).
The reasons why women make a choice not in favor of the birth of a child are well known, they usually have a social and emotional side. However, it is less known that abortion is chosen by women who are well aware of contraceptive means. This partly suggests that, along with reasons, there is a goal that a woman (often unconsciously) is trying to achieve. Abortion may mean that a young woman wants to make sure her ability to get pregnant.
Why is this need so strong that a strict test is needed by practice, and the presence of menstruation and the conclusion of a gynecologist is not enough? I think, because in a modern civilized society there are no rites of initiation of young women who existed in the ancient and medieval traditions. At a rational level, a woman knows that she is fertile. But she needs a bodily, physiological experience. As a result of pregnancy and abortion, a woman receives a final answer: “I can get pregnant and give birth”.
Young women often become pregnant before graduation and defense of the diploma, when they are in front of them – to preserve pregnancy and become a mother or to abort and take care of a career. Resorting to abortion, they, respectively, choose work and creative path. At least one of the stages of your life.
Finally, abortion is an opportunity to survive the most dramatic situation to change. Many need to subject themselves to a painful test in order to feel like adults. There is hardly a stronger means of “getting out of childhood” than to kill a child in himself. Many women with whom I worked said that as a result they said goodbye to the children’s idea that they would have a new doll. This is often the only way to abandon this infantile imagination. But most importantly, they admitted that abortion influenced their worldview and attitude to the world: those components of their identity that were previously hidden came to the forefront.
Abortion, being an initiation, changes life and personality.
So why today, when childbirth is quite safe, contraceptives are available, and mothers do not interrupt their careers even after the birth of several children, abortions are still quite frequent? Because a modern woman needs at least two initiations. Complete initiation – childbirth – makes a woman a mother, and an abortion as a partial initiation allows her to enter a new life, to be herself. After all, this is very scary to reject the values that are inherent in society from time immemorial, to express contempt for all mothers with their act. Those who decided to abort, and today condemn, they are burdened by a feeling of guilt. And yet the woman for the first
time in her life says “yes” to herself.
