as much as meat loves salt
Sep. 10th, 2007 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lotesseA pretty thing I found in a book today, copied out here both because I want to remember it and because I thought the Supernatural girls might find it interesting:
"Salt has a double aspect. In alchemy, salt is the symbol of wisdom, but it also has a stinging quality of bitterness - the bitterness of the sea comes from the salt in it. Wisdom, wit, bitterness, and Eros - all that is associated with salt. Jung says this has to do with a specific feminine feeling of love: when a woman is disappointed in love, she becomes either bitter or wise."
-Marie-Louise Von Franz, "Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales"
"Salt has a double aspect. In alchemy, salt is the symbol of wisdom, but it also has a stinging quality of bitterness - the bitterness of the sea comes from the salt in it. Wisdom, wit, bitterness, and Eros - all that is associated with salt. Jung says this has to do with a specific feminine feeling of love: when a woman is disappointed in love, she becomes either bitter or wise."
-Marie-Louise Von Franz, "Animus and Anima in Fairy Tales"