Like the kachinas, Barbie is both toy and mythic object-modern woman and Ur-woman-navelless, motherless, an incarnation of "the One Goddess with a Thousand Names." In the reservoir of communal memory that psychologist Carl Jung has termed the "collective unconscious," Barbie is an archetype of something ancient, matriarchal, and profound.
( M.G. Lord )
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