The Myth of Isis

The myth of Isis provides an opportunity to illustrate the originality of the thinking of Pierre Solié, who gives the symbolic Mother a value equivalent to that of the symbolic Father. The symbolic Mother is a means of access to discrimination between masculine and feminine, by means of a radical separation, as well as a means of sublimation of the missing object in a spiritual register. Isis, as she wanders in search of the pieces of the body of her dead husband, meets various cruel or inventive aspects of herself (shadow, narcissistic double), which, by successive turns, allow her to elaborate what Pierre Solié calls her Renaissance Phallus. The latter symbolizes the ability of the human mind to make abstractions ; that is, to create a symbol after having experienced the pain of grief and absolute loss. It also signifies access to the invisible world of the Beyond, to which only the inner eyes are able to connect.