Great Mother Research Articles

Powrót Bogini? Przykłady funkcjonowania postaci Magma Mater w polskiej literaturze popularnej

Artykul „Powrot Bogini? Magna Mater w polskiej literaturze popularnej” podzielony jest na dwie cześci. W pierwszej cześci autorka przywoluje rozwazania zwolennikow i przeciwnikow teorii Wielkiej Bogini Matki. Wedlug wielu historykow religii i antropologow kultury kult zenskiego bostwa, lączony z matriarchatem jako systemem spolecznym byl powszechny w okresie neolitu. Koncepcje Bogini, kojarzoną z pokojową wizją Starej Europy, popularyzowali m.in.: Margaret Murray, Robert Graves, Marija Gimbutas. Psychologicznym kontekstem do jej przyjecia staly sie natomiast prace Carla Gustava Junga (archetyp Wielkiej Matki). Mimo istnienia przeciwnikow religii Magna Mater (w Polsce są to np. Aleksander Bruckner i Maciej Szymkiewicz), idea ta, spopularyzowana przez ruchy feministyczne, stala sie cześcią wyobraźni symbolicznej, ksztaltującej wspolczesną kulture popularną. W drugiej cześci artykulu autorka przedstawia funkcjonowanie postaci Bogini we wspolczesnej polskiej literaturze (glownie literaturze popularnej). Analizuje tworczośc Olgi Tokarczuk, Barbary Srebro, Magdaleny Kubasiewicz, Piotra Patykiewicza, Andrzeja Sapkowskiego, Anny Brzezinskiej. W ich utworach Magna Mater traci swe sakralne znaczenie. O ile Tokarczuk rekonstruuje psychologiczny sens postaci Bogini, o tyle inni autorzy, np. Brzezinska, sprowadzają ją do poziomu „pustego znaku”.

Webs of Endless Possibility Life Lessons from the “Great Mother” as Told by a Black Widow and her ten Little Spiders

This article offers a fairy tale but also a moral tale. It tells the story of a black widow spider and her ten little spiders—all female. After a number of behavioral observations about the habits of black widow spiders, under the disguise of lessons from life, there is a dialogue between the ten little spiders and their “grandma” black widow. The article transforms into a moral tale touching upon a number of issues such as male-female relationships, leadership, meaning and the feminine mystique. Initially, the dialogue centers around the complex psychological dynamics of what makes partner relationships work—and what doesn’t make them work. Often, it is described as the dialogue of the deaf, both parties not picking up the subtle signals. In addition, many of the dimensions of what makes for effective and ineffective partnerships are highlighted. Subsequently, the article (still using the “lessons learned” format) includes a number of observations about what’s needed to create an effective leadership style, taking both a Machiavellian perspective and a more idealistic one. Furthermore, the essay contains a number of reflections on the forces that will make for meaning. Finally, some observations are offered about the role of the female in the imagination—a reference to the symbolism of the “Great Mother” image. Throughout the article, attention is given to the black widow symbolism in society—the discomfort of some men with the feminine mystique, often due to early ambivalent experiences with women. Men may have this fear of women while, at the same time, live in a self-created male dominated world. In the same way that black widows can be truly deadly, the feminine can—in the imaginations of these men—become something very threatening.

Arketipe Ketaksadaran Tokoh Faris dan Inayah dalam Novel Lail wa Qudbhan Karya Najib Al-Kailani

This research aims to describe the psychological conflict that can impact the changes of Faris and Inayah attitudes when acting on novel Lail wa Qudbhan by Najib al-Kailani. The approach of this research is the psychology of literature that discusses of the psychology aspects of figures in the work or is called the textual approach. The theory used to study the psychology of figures in this research is Carl Gustav Jung’s psychology theory and focused on the archetypes of the character’s unconsciousness. The research method used is a qualitative method, documentation technic with descriptive analysis of data analysis. There is also the result of this study found that the cause of the change in attitude of Faris and Inayah figures is their unconscious archetype. Faris’s archetype consists of a persona obstinacy, a shadow of killing and copulation, his anima is uncontrolled emotional, a great mother who brings destruction, wise old man who advise and teach patience, and Self want freedom of life and happiness. While Inayah’s archetype consists of a persona of a happy wife, a shadow of murder an indidelity, an animus of rational and stubborn thinking, a great mother who loves, wise old man who teaches patience, and Self want freedom and happiness.

Cultural adaptation of \u2018Healthy Dads, Healthy Kids\u2019 for Hispanic families: applying the ecological validity model

BackgroundHealthy Dads Healthy Kids (HDHK) is a unique lifestyle obesity intervention for fathers and children that demonstrated weight loss among the fathers and behavior change among fathers and children in Australia. The program is gender-tailored to specifically target fathers for weight loss and 5–12 year old children for obesity prevention. The aim of this formative study was to examine an Expert Panel’s and Hispanic Family Panel’s perceptions about the program and suggestions for the cultural adaptation of HDHK for Hispanic families in southwestern US.MethodsForty-four Hispanic participants (22 fathers, 13 mothers and 9 children) made up the Family Panel. They participated in 1–5 study contacts (focus groups, online survey, and/or interviews). The scripts and qualitative guides assessed participants’ perceptions of the HDHK content and material using the Ecological Validity Model. Studies were conducted in English or Spanish, depending on the preference of the participant. Focus groups and interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed, translated, and thematically coded. Findings were reviewed with the Expert Panel who helped inform the cultural adaptation.Results80% of parents were foreign-born, 57% spoke only Spanish at home, and 60% did not graduate from high school. Several themes emerged to inform the cultural adaptation of the program. Parents agreed with the HDHK goals and recommended the program place greater emphasis on parenting and limiting children’s screen time. Some mothers and fathers wanted greater mother engagement. Weekly videos and a Facebook group emerged as favorite alternative options to engage mothers. Greater promotion of familism (inclusion and impact on whole family) was recommended for the program goals and activities. Gender roles for mothers and fathers, and differences in how fathers interact with male and female children, emerged and should be considered in program activities. Several barriers to father engagement surfaced, including lack of time due to work schedules, physically demanding jobs, concerns of caring for children without mother, fathers’ current fitness/weight, and lack of knowledge of how to eat more healthfully. The reading level of the HDHK materials was too high for some parents.ConclusionFindings from these formative qualitative studies informed the cultural adaptation of HDHK for Hispanic families, to account for literacy level, cultural values, and barriers to participation and engagement.

"Napredak koji ugrožava život" - pitanje prirode i odgoja u priči Dankana Vilijamsona "Meri i foka"

The paper first discusses two documentaries by Donna Read, Signs Out of Time (2004) and Goddess Remembered (1989), that focus on the pacific tradition of the female centered settlements on the territories of modern Eastern Europe in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Read depicts significant findings of a world-renowned archeologist Marija Gimbutas who claims that a peaceful image of Old Europe embodied in the omnipotent Great Mother changed radically towards the end of the third millennium when violent Indo-European nomads came from Russia and shattered the matriarchal utopia of equality and natural harmony. These tribes introduced the principles of hierarchy and violent male-rule. Read's and Gimbutas' findings are further developed and examined in the studies by Riana Eisler and Erich Fromm who also claim that conspicuous material aggrandizement of patriarchal culture severely damaged a blissful matriarchal bond between man and nature. These theoretical insights are applied to Williamson's comprehension of nature vs. nurture issue in "Mary and the Seal" (1997). In portraying a tender relationship between Mary and the seal, as well as its tragic and totally unnecessary shooting, contemporary patriarchal culture is brought to a trial. The mere existence of the bond between Mary and the seal, an embodiment of an idyllic matriarchal unity between man and nature, testifies to the prevalent need for the return to its substantial but long-forgotten values. The theoretical insights of Graves, Althusser, Freire, Fiske and Miller will also be used in the interpretation of the story.

A reflection on Pentecostalism and montanism from the perspective of the indigenous religion of Cybele or the great mother of the gods

The Church of Pentecost (CoP) has been identified as the fastest growing Christian denomination and the largest Protestant church in Ghana since 1989.1 Even though the CoP is grouped among the Classical Pentecostal Churches in Ghana, together with the Assemblies of God (AG), Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) and the Apostolic Church (AC), some scholars tend to describe it as an indigenous Ghanaian Pentecostal church for various reasons.2 For example, Asamoah-Gyadu indicates that - although it identifies with the classical Pentecostal tradition, the CoP has acquired a unique indigenous character, marking it out as different in outlook from, say, the Assemblies of God, whose American imprint after sixty years of existence in Ghana is still quite obvious.3 To some extent, some of the leaders of the CoP also seem to have similar view that the CoP is an indigenous Ghanaian church. Writing the introduction to the ‘History of The Church of Pentecost Volume 1’, Apostle D K Anan, the then chairman of the History Committee, points out that ‘The Church of Pentecost, from its inception, has been an indigenous, a do-it-yourself Church.’4 This assumption agrees with the claims of Rev. James McKeown, the first superintendent and chairman of the CoP that he wanted to plant ‘local species’ in African soil, since he believed that a British oak is more likely to struggle in Ghana.

Structure, Properties and Functions of Political Myth

The paper reveals the structure, properties and main functions of modern political myth, in addition, it analyzes the relationship between modern and archaic myths. The basis of modern political myths is rationalized and expressed in symbolic form mythological archetype. Despite the fact that archaic mythology as an integral system of worldview is rationalized, desacralized and destroyed, mythological archetypes retain their social significance. That is, political myths are the result of rationalization and symbolic interpretation of mythological archetypes. The article describes the main symbols-archetypes being invariably present in political discourse. For example, the hero archetype symbol is used to create heroic political myths. This group of myths is necessary for the formation of the image of a political leader. The representation of a political leader in accordance with the symbol-archetype of the hero significantly increases his capabilities and powers. The symbol-archetype of the Golden age is used to construct the image of the ideal social and political system. This archetype is especially actively exploited in various utopian and revolutionary projects. The symbol-archetype of the Great Mother, also actively used by modern mythology, forms ideas about their native land and country creating a sense of unity and cohesion. Since archetypal symbols retain their social significance, political myths, by reproducing them, perform important social functions. Shaping a special symbolic and semantic reality modern myths perform the main function – meaning making. Modern political myths carry out their functions by acting on the unconscious level, thereby causing certain emotional experiences and pushing the masses to the required actions. Thus, it can be concluded that political myths are an integral component of modern social and political practice.

The Great Mother: A Psychoanalytical Analysis of the Magna Mater In Two Novels

Sigmund Freud formulated the theory of “Oedipus Complex”, Erich Newmann came forth with “The Great Mother or the Magna Mater” based on Carl Jung’s Theory of the Archetype and the Mother Complex, which charts the mental processes of women’s psychological development. Two novels are analysed based on the given psychoanalytical theories the first a British novel “Sons and Lovers” by D.H. Lawrence and the other Australian “The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough. Both novels have two brothers who become the focus of their mother’s attention and the overbearing mother’s control clashes with their identities, which results in death or fallout from society. The characters’ personal conflicts reveal encrypted truth.

Image of the Great Mother Yan Zhengzai in the Chinese Culture and Literature

This article aims to present Confucius’ mother, Yan Zhengzai, in the Chinese ancient literature and history, remembering her feats of home education and praising her wisdom as the first representative of wise women in the Chinese traditional culture. China has never had a Mother’s Day, because there is no consensus on the typical representative of a Chinese mother. Confucius (28 September 551 B.C. — 11 April 479 B.C.) is one of the representatives of Chinese culture, his doctrine — Confucianism — is the foundation and spiritual mentality of the Chinese nation. Yang Zhengzai was both Confucius’s mother and first teacher. With her unique and new vision, concept, content, and teaching method, she brought up Confucius as the “Wise Teacher of Antiquity”, a great thinker, and educator of the traditional society of ancient China. She left the precious wisdom for Chinese matriarchal culture behind, making this great woman a worthy Chinese Holy Mother. This paper details the hard mental journey of the great mother and her teaching principles for the dignified development of the great son, as well as presenting other Chinese great mothers. The authors note that Yan Zhengzai is the most successful female model of family education in China and the world. Therefore, the authors propose to establish a Mother’s Day in China honoring Yang Zhengzai.

“The Saga about the Great Mother” by N.A. Klyuyev: Mysticism and Reality in the History about the “Granddaughter of Avvakum”

“The Saga about the Great Mother” by N.A. Klyuyev: Mysticism and Reality in the History about the “Granddaughter of Avvakum”

Confession of Victim and Intonation of Vengeance: Famine, Terror and Writing

The paper considers repressions and Holodomor as a kind of literary practice and traumatic experience in the works and biography of the Ukrainian diaspora writer Olha Mak. The analysis covers fiction, memoirs, and journalistic texts, in particular the memoirs “From the Time of Yezhovshchyna”, the essay “Capital of Hungry Horror”, and the story “Stones Under Scythe”, considered in the context of the fi ction and documentaries of the postwar Ukrainian diaspora. In this case, the writing appears to be a vital natural resource for recreating the memory, where one’s own individual experience becomes a material, an object for self-refl ection. The process of writing is associated with moral and ethical duty of witnessing the past; it has a powerful therapeutic meaning and protects from immorality integrating individual experience and history into collective, social, cultural, etc. The memoir “From the Time of Yezhovshchyna” by Olha Mack, dealing with the theme of Soviet terror and repressions, is a peculiar form of re-experiencing a personal tragedy associated with the arrest and deportation of the author’s husband. It shows the self-denial of the Soviet human, the wife of the ‘enemy of people’, and records her traumatic experience and memories.The Holodomor theme, elaborated by Olha Mack in various genres and forms, was not only a material, an object of research, but also a part of her personal biography and family history. The Holodomor in the perception of Olha Mack symbolized the threat to social, national (spiritual) life connected with various social, cultural, and mental illnesses; hence, it involves the idea of eliminating Ukraine not only as material and spatial entity, but also as abstract and spiritual one. The story “Stones Under Scythe”, dedicated to the memory of the Holodomor, is considered as a kind of the classical bildungsroman genre’s variation. Its conceptual fi gures are images-archetypes of the child-victim, the female martyr, the great mother. The Holodomor (both physical and spiritual, which destroys the foundations of national dignity, national solidarity and so on) in the story by Olha Mack is not only the topic, but also a continual metaphor and key motive.

Research on New Mother Classes

To delve into the thoughts and opinions of women who attended new mother classes and highlight the perspective of the facilitators who taught them. This was a qualitative, descriptive research study focused on new mother classes. The women interviewed were primarily from the Boston, Massachusetts, area and had taken a “Great Beginning” series of new mother classes. Facilitator interviews were from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and California. Fifteen women and 10 facilitators were interviewed. Participants were identified from a criterion-based snowball sampling of the community. The interviews with women were conducted in person in the home, coffee shop, or place of employment. Facilitator interviews took place by phone. Digitally recorded, semistructured interviews of approximately 1 hr were conducted. Data were transcribed and content analyzed. Multiple strategies were used to ensure trustworthiness of the findings, including member checks, bracketing, and an audit trail. Results were shared with the participants. Five themes emerged from the data: The Needs of New Mothers, Women’s Opinions of New Mother Classes, Facilitator Perspectives of New Mother Classes, How to Structure Great New Mother Classes, and Creating Community for Women Who Were New Mothers. The classes helped the new mothers learn needed skills, feel nurtured, learn that they were doing it right, expose them to other examples, and verified the normalcy of the process. The results of this research have multiple implications for nursing practice, education, and research. As nursing expands past the hospital setting, there is continued need for best practices and methods to encourage and support the health of new mothers. Offering classes that meet the needs of new mothers and creating an actual, real-life, offline “community” do just that.

VOCABULARY AND STRUCTURE OF THE INVOCATION OF ISIS IN THE NOVEL “THE SEA PRIESTESS” BY DION FORTUNE

The article is devoted to the analysis of the structure and vocabulary of the invocation of Isis in the famous occult novel “The Sea Priestess” by Dion Fortune. The author is a mystic, a Kabbalist, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the founder of the Order of the Brotherhood of the Inner Light. Her works are included in the golden treasury of the New Age movement. The novel “The Sea Priestess” had a significant influence on the formation of modern religious movements honoring the Great Goddess, in particular, on Wicca. The object of the study in the article is the invocation - the religious text calling on the Egyptian Goddess Isis, as a personification of the Great Mother. Isis is represented in the novel as the Goddess of the Moon, who is the «Sea» - the Original Ocean from which life spawned. Here the reader becomes acquainted with the occult philosophy: all goddesses are one Goddess. As a consequence, in the invocation we find the names of goddesses of different pantheons - Egyptian (Isis), Greek (Aphrodite, Hera, Persephone, Hecate, Ea / Rhea, Ge / Gaia), Semitic (Astarte, Ashtoreth), as well as the sacral names Binah, Levanah. The priestess of the sea calls Isis in two images – Isis Veiled and Isis Unveiled. Invocation consists of three parts: the beginning, the main part and the end. In the beginning, the priestess calls upon the goddess to come. She does not ask, her appeal sounds more like a demand. The place and time of the ritual are indicated here and the Goddess is enchanted with sacred names. The main part of invocation is narrated on behalf of Isis, as evidenced by the use of the first person singular pronoun. Here we find epithets and metaphors denoting female symbols, characterizing the Goddess. In addition, the names of goddesses from different pantheons are used in this context,. The final stanza of the invocation comprises the indication that Isis responded to the call and has come unto a particular person.

Young career women debate question of “having it all”

Purpose Researchers felt previous research had not addressed the complexity of young women’s views on whether they can have it all – which essentially means a great career at the same time as being a great mother. They identified six different positions, with either extreme represented by the optimist and pessimist viewpoints. Design/methodology/approach There were interviews with 14 small focus groups of between two and eight members. All were emerging adults at a Canadian university and on the verge of moving into careers. The focus was on the challenges of work–family balance, especially in managerial roles. Findings Six common positions emerged - optimism, pessimism, uncertainty, choice, pragmatism, and support. Optimists were certain they could achieve balance and “have it all” even if it entailed a slight struggle. In total contrast to the optimists, the pessimists’ position was that no one could have it all – both a really good job and a healthy family life – and it was always necessary to give something up. Other positions were more nuanced. Originality/value Previous studies have tended to be quantitative and come up with much less-nuanced results. The study enabled researchers to tease out the complexity of women’s views.

섹슈얼리티, 여성, 마더후드 : 이태준의 『성모』에 나타난 ‘성애’와 ‘모성애’에 대하여

섹슈얼리티, 여성, 마더후드 : 이태준의 『성모』에 나타난 ‘성애’와 ‘모성애’에 대하여

Вокативни форми на роднинските названия в народнопесенния фолклор от Ксантийско (дн. Гърция)

The paper presents the kinship names as vocatives, appearing in folk songs from the Xanthi region excerpted from two collections (Pomaki. The Muslims of Rodopi (1995) by P. Theoharidis and Dry me, Burn me… (2012) by E. Ushev). Various ways of addressing the mother, the daughter, the son and other relatives are presented in the research comprising the kinship names of persons with blood and non-blood relations. The excerpted material is dominated by the female part, as the greatest variety and frequency of use is observed in vocatives to the mother, which confirms the thesis of the cult of the Great Mother and of the strong respect towards motherhood in the region’s past. The research covers the majority of traditional kinship names in the region, including diminutive nouns typical of the Rhodope dialects. Various vocatives with interesting meanings are detected in kinship names of persons with non-blood relations, which complete the picture of the common Bulgarian kinship names.

Ephesos: Die antike Metropole im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Bildung

Ephesos: Die antike Metropole im Spannungsfeld von Religion und Bildung

Women in Japanese Cinema: Alternative Perspectives by Tamae K. Prindle

Reviewed by: Women in Japanese Cinema: Alternative Perspectives by Tamae K. Prindle Isolde Standish (bio) Women in Japanese Cinema: Alternative Perspectives. By Tamae K. Prindle. MerwinAsia, Portland ME, 2016. viii, 497 pages. $75.00, cloth; $35.00, paper. Tamae K. Prindle's book Women in Japanese Cinema: Alternative Perspectives is an ambitious study that attempts an analysis of selected Japanese films [End Page 453] from various "feminist"-derived theoretical positions—"ecological feminism," "Marxist/socialist feminism," "Jungian psychoanalysis," "Lacanian sexuality," "Freudian penis envy," "Sartrean existentialism," "shojo hood," "Honda Masuko's concept of cocooned girlhood," Julia Kristeva's "Women's Time," "sadomasochism," "Lacanian psychoanalysis," and "Lyotardian/Jamesonian postmodernism" (p. 2). Due to the ambitious nature of the book's theoretical themes and the eclectic nature of the films selected for analysis, I suggest the book not be approached as a synthesized thesis, that is, a theme developed through the core chapters that leads to a specific set of conclusions. The all-too-brief introduction (three and a half pages for a four-hundred-page book) and the lack of a concluding chapter, among other things, militate against such a reading. Instead, a more profitable approach to this study is to treat it as one would an edited volume in which each chapter or section is self-contained within an overarching theme—in this case, "women in Japanese cinema." If taken in this light, as the subtitle directs us—"alternative perspectives" with the emphasis on the plural in "perspectives"—the structure of the study is perfectly logical. The study is divided into five chapters that each focus on three films under the headings of "Mother," "Wives," "Prostitutes," "Girls," and "Women"; these headings loosely follow Japanese cinematic classifications as subgenres of the broader term "melodrama." The films, it is stated, were selected on "artistic" grounds, though "artistic" is not defined and "canon" might have been a safer term as many of the films considered have been widely circulated in the West: Narayama bushikō (The ballad of Narayama, 1983) by Imamura Shōhei; Okaasan (Mother, 1952) by Naruse Mikio; Jigokumon (Gate of hell, 1953) by Kinugasa Teinosuke; Waga seishun ni kuinashi (No regrets for our youth, 1946) by Kurosawa Akira; Izu no odoriko (A dancer in Izu, 1926) by Nishikawa Katsumi; Tsugumi (1990) by Ichikawa Jun; Saikaku ichidai onna (Life of Oharu, 1952) by Mizoguchi Kenji; and Tanpopo (1985) by Itami Juzō. There are some notable exceptions, which we should commend Prindle for incorporating: Yumiko (Great mother, 1983) by Idemitsu Mako; Gimu to engi (Duty and pretense, 1997) by Ichikura Haruo; and Kin no ue no sōgyo (A grass carp on a tree, 1997) by Ishikawa Atsushi. Thus, the structure of the book and the films selected make it an ideal text for teaching—bite-size chapters that can be easily uploaded onto an electronic reading list and linked to weekly film viewings. Indeed, it is as a teaching text that the book is best approached. The author gives helpful, factual information such as cast lists as well as illustrations of publicity posters and detailed historical backgrounds on each film's sources, often derived from literature. This is perhaps the strongest element of the book and one of the most useful aspects from a teaching perspective—the in-depth [End Page 454] recounting of the literary antecedents of many of the films. The chapter on Mizoguchi's Saikaku ichidai onna, for example, includes a detailed analysis and much background information on the novel Kōshoku ichidai onna (The life of an amorous woman, 1686) by Ihara Saikaku. This background information would be extremely helpful for students in putting the film into a Japanese context, as would the background information on Kinugasa's 1953 classic Jigokumon relating to Heike monogatari (Tale of the Heike, thirteenth century), and on Kawabata Yasunari's Izu no odoriku, among others. However, these helpful expositions are not limited to literature. The all-too-brief consideration of social discourses on transsexuality in Japanese society since the 1990s through a discussion of recently published academic texts by Japanese authors, such as Harima Katsuki and Sōma Saeko (Sei dōitsusei shōgan 30nin no kaminguauto [The coming out of 30 gender identity...

Commémorer l’arrivée d’une nouvelle divinité: la fête à Rome à travers les jeux Mégalésiens

In 204 B.C., the Great Mother (Cybele) came in the roman pantheon. This goddess who coming from the Phrygia was greeted pompously by the authorities and the Roman people, and immediately received official festivals called ludi Megalenses. These festivals, inscribed on the calendar, were to mark the introduction of this new divinity and to establish, in the collective memory, this important event. Through these festivities, it was a matter of honoring this great goddess who had agreed to change her home to ensure the protection of the Roman people. With this example, we will ask ourselves about the occasions we had “to celebrate” in Rome, the form that it took, the actors as well as the places in which it took place.

Korifej onirizma srpske romantičarske književnosti, Laza Kostić

While searching for the oniric layer in the literary opus of this romanticism poet, the author of this research will be convinced that Laza Kostić is a being of doubt who spent his whole life, both personal and professional, oscillating between dreams and reality. The origin of dreams in Kostić's work is of a two-fold nature: some are the fruit of the poet's creative intention, whereas the others, the ones left, the ones making intriguing and mysterious The Diary of Dreams, are his 'alive' dreams which fulfilled his nights, sometimes even days, for the entire six years, maybe even longer. Kostić intended those first dreams, created out of necessity, to lead a public life, while the others, being written in French, were meant to stay away from prying eyes. That can, it seems, be a valid reason for them to be read and interpreted separately. End yet, our research, as well as the others up to now, related to Kostić's life and work, indicate that the key of the genesis and understanding of his swan song is what The Diary of Dreams exactly is. In it the motives and the concepts are consistently and constantly showing up, and later, at the peak of his career culminated into 'the most powerful love song of Serbian literature', Santa Maria della Salute. In the corpus of his written legacy, the motive of dream is often recognised as a metaphor for life and/or death, but also as an expression of poetically transposed desires of a poet. That would also correspond to the Freud's theory that dreams are a mere expression of repressed desire of the one dreaming. In his work, the motive of dream is appearing within the thematic units in whose basis are: a) national-romantic idea of Serbian identity b) mythological religious theme c) emotional sensitive life. Studying poet's literary dreams, as well as personal ones, we will realise that neither in the idea of national awakening and restoration of the former Serbian empire, nor in mythology and religion, did he find consolation and satiation. Only when he encountered Lenka Dunđerski, who is said to have been the embodiment of Anima from his dreams, did he start his way from individually unaware Anima to collectively unaware archetype of the Great Mother, through the means of individuation, towards original oneness, permanent conciliation and satiation, which will result in his swan song, Santa Maria della Salute.