Fig 75 – 78 Illustrations by Simon Prades (unknown date)

Illustrator Simon Prades

In (Jungian) psychological terms, [the forest] is the unconscious, or confusion, a realm of instability, a regressus ad uterum, a place of re-creation and re-birth, where the ego/ soul/ heroine is tested and initiated. (Poole 2007, p. 67)