Dolls recreate the self and the ideal self or "other."
Dolls are sympathetic medicine - the sympathy of all things connects all humans throughout history (Jung)
Dolls are "archetypes that connect the living to the past by a bridge of emotions, innate mental tendencies, to explain the inner and outer self." (Jung)
Dolls are transitional objects that is helpful to make in defenses against anxiety. (Winnecott)
Dollmaking is a creative process where the maker is involved in making art that is healing and life-enhancing.
The Doll is always on the threshold of becoming. (Fox)
Dolls represent how we view ourselves from all aspects: emotional, psychological, environmental, and spiritual. Through doll-making process, the maker intuitively responds to the emerging image, changing, playing, and dialoging with it.
Making a doll is a way of playing with embodiment of self and parts of self.
Dolls are archetypal figures created from a person’s symbolic psyche.
Dolls tend to carry childhood dreams and memories.
Dolls are objects of the creative imagination.
Dolls are like seeds, in that they contain all the processes – rational, imaginative, conscious, and unconscious, that, in the beginning, is the basic experience of play.” (adapted from Cassandra Light)
Dolls are vehicles for making the invisible visible, and therefore easier to transform and change.
Dolls can be vessels/containers that hold a concept, a belief, a struggle.
Dolls give the maker a human form that can be used to see inside of the body.
Dolls can embody ancestors, tribes, dreams and illustrate the myths and stories about person archetypes.
Dolls can be rich in symbolism, can hold stories and deeply meaningful emotions.
