"The loss of the life made by hand sets up a voracious hunger in the psyche, and then things that seem like fulfillment, things that seem exciting, things that seem pleasureable, are taken in as if they are that handmade thing. Except instead of making well and making life, they bring destruction."

Jungian analyst and cantadora Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés gives her famous telling of "The Red Shoes".

Was suprised not to find this anywhere on YouTube so here it is.

Audio copyright Clarissa Pinkola Estés, "The Red Shoes: On Torment and the Recovery of Soul Life", 2005, Sounds True.

Illustration by William Heath Robinson, in "Hans Andersen's fairy tales" (1913, London: Constable) with slight modification.

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