Healing from Osiris

The myth of Isis and Osiris tells of an amorous yet fraternal encounter between the feminine and masculine, free of the usual power struggles between the sexes or between Man and Nature. A clinical case study demonstrates that by defining herself as a subject capable of differentiated feelings, a woman who had hitherto been an idolatrous lover achieved the Osiris Remedy for herself : in other words, an animus fragmented by early affective deprivation was made whole again.