In my minds eye: Aunt Polly’s house on the hill was identical to my childhood house on the hill. Forthwith a flame of fire will come out of the crucible and spread itself over the whole chamber (fear no harm), and will light up the whole chamber more brightly than sun and moon, and over your heads you shall behold the whole firmament as it is in the starry heavens above, and the planets shall hold to their appointed courses as in the sky. Members of our species who were realistic or pessimistic about their future and the inevitability of danger, illness and death were not motivated to do things necessary for their survival. And some of that shadow carries through into to present day “positive psychology” which can equate unrealistic optimism with happiness and success. After the death of Pollyanna’s parents, she is sent to live with her rich Aunt Polly (played by Jane Wyman). After the death of her parents, POLLYANNA (Hayley Mills) arrives in Harrington to live with her wealthy aunt, Polly (Jane Wyman), who is generous with money, but also reserved and joyless. Wholeness is brought into being by withstanding and integrating “the tension of the opposites.” Light is only a partial truth. Pollyanna Woodward’s mother’s name is unknown at this time and her father’s name is under review. The game … Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Bias is a process that takes place in the unconscious – and it is interesting, that in the face of everyday miseries, that our psyche may work to compensate by shining a light on the more positive aspects in our memory. The Healer is also a Charlatan, And God as an archetype is both loving and wrathful. Her “not wanting anything” is no longer a problematic opposition to “the game” but the pleasurable and playful focus of the game itself – kickstarting the psyche’s search for meaning. Those are the facts we have to work with. Her church? She arrives with nothing to her name, no transitional objects from one world to the next, except the one thing she inherited from her father: The Glad Game, which her father taught her in order to summon her resilience and negotiate episodes of painful deprivation and despair. But the next question is how? Pollyanna is the protagonist of the film of the same name. I’m not sure that I would agree that optimistic denial of hard reality is best way to survive or appreciate life, although it may be the easiest, quickest, most reflexive way for many. Where does meaning-making occur? Then World War II happened. In this story, Pollyanna is an independent and strong child who lost her mother since she was child. “Pollyanna” became a synonym for someone who was infuriatingly, annoyingly cheerful all of the time. The story, for those that do not know it, centers around a young girl of eleven, a minister’s daughter, sent to live with her maternal “spinster” aunt, by the “Ladies Aid Society” after her impoverished, widowed father’s death. “Just being glad” is an example of what Frankl calls an “attitudinal value” which emerges when we have lost access to other values and must facing unavoidable suffering. Where did it come from? Simple optimistic repression of painful reality may bring more immediate – if temporary – relief from distress, but a simplistic denial and adoption of a merely “positive” perspective works against the richer, “alchemical” processes of moving toward wholeness. Jung’s prescription is for those who prefer to play “the game” quietly by themselves: The point of view described above is supported by the alchemist’s remarkable use of the terms meditatio and imaginatio . Pollyanna The Pollyanna Principle is an established cognitive and unconscious bias that suggests that “the glad game” plays itself (for those who are not clinically depressed) in the back of our brains, outside of our awareness. When she was 12, her parents passed away and she went to live with her Aunt Polly in Harrington, where her optimistic views change several of the townsfolk's lives for the better. From where does this answer appear from when we are bereft? Then his father who as a pastor dead too. It may be with God, when He is invoked, or with himself, or with his good angel.” … The psychologist is familiar with this “inner dialogue”; it is an essential part of the technique for coming to terms with the unconscious. It's the unspoken truths that cause the most confusion and misunderstanding. What was this attitude (terrific or not) that I was able to summon for public consumption, for clients and acquaintances, and for my children and for all those that I felt I needed to care for or protect? Pollyanna’s mother estranged from her two sisters and her parents when she chose to marry her husband. Suddenly, the world was a much darker place. The End. Pieces had to be picked up. The pathogenic fear is replaced by a paradoxical wish. She and Aunt Polly leave Harrington with Dr. Edmond Chilton for an operation in Baltimore, which will correct her injury. And lately, some parents are bringing Pollyanna's lesson into their homes. Pollyanna charted my course from one lost family to the next, and to the next after that. “Mrs. This character article is a stub. Struggling with such symptoms and “wrestling with the question of whether there is a meaning to life, is not in itself a pathological phenomenon” according to Frankl. As I slowly recovered from a period of intensive and debilitating treatment for cancer, as I transitioned back into the world of work, and social commitments, as I returned to the world, altered but alive, anxious yet hopeful about what a newly reorganized life might have in store for me – I suddenly remembered Pollyanna. She had drawn me a map and guided me through waves of chaos, loss, and disruption. But he asserts that his is a stance based on realism and acceptance of what he calls the “tragic triad of human existence: pain, death and guilt.”. Encouraging the patient to do, or wish to happen, the very things he fears engenders an inversion of intention. The “glad thought” must be the right one – the singular, personal thought that transforms a loss into something useful or meaning-filled, or points toward some positive transformation that makes one prouder of themselves or more connected to others, or the world, or to the Divine, in someway. The old tattered blue book came with me -already dusty – to college, and then moved with me like a relic through a few young adult relocations, slowly disintegrating until it was eventually lost or tossed out in pieces. Harrington This labor is not for the impatient or faint of heart. She becomes an inadvertent teacher to her new community, most of whom have experienced significant loss, illness, or traumas of their own, as she demonstrates how she uses her father’s game to help her make sense of the tragedies she has survived. When the alchemists speak of meditari they do not mean mere cogitation, but explicitly an inner dialogue and hence a living relationship to the answering voice of the “other” in ourselves, i.e., of the unconscious. “I don’t know. Despite all the secrecy that Pollyanna, Jimmy, John Pendleton, Aunt Polly, Sadie, and Mrs. Carew have sustained, Jamie finds out one night at the dinner table that it is Jimmy, not he, who is the true nephew by blood. And surfacing the opposites that reside in my unconscious serves to ground me, soothe me, and connect me more deeply to the human family. May this be the lesson to learn from my book. Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines: the labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Seminar #95: Contact with the Archetype and the Black Veil, Seminar # 92: The Asylum and the Great Storm. ~ C. G. Jung quoting Morienus, Psychology and Alchemy. Over forty parents joined us for a presentation about Pollyanna and our K-8 Racial Literacy Curriculum and Parent/Guardian Companion Guide. He said I must be glad. And I was startled to discover that it not only withstood a fairly close reading, it made my own encounters with suffering, more understandable to me. “To merely be glad again” is an act that only appears simple, that was once taken for granted but can be taken for granted no longer. They first settled in Deloraine, Manitoba and later moved to Winnipeg. The “union of opposites” – the fusion of paradoxical, contradictory, or split off states, is sometimes referred to as the “alchemical wedding” and takes place in the refining fires of the alchemist’s furnace. And the paradox that I experienced was this: At the very moment that I began to apprehend my own death I simultaneously found myself on the receiving end of an extraordinary outpouring of love, of support, of well wishes, of frozen lasagnas, of financial assistance, of commiseration, of camaraderie, of gratitude, and appreciation, the greatest influx of collective kindness and generosity that I could ever imagine. We will continue to update information on Pollyanna McIntosh’s parents. In fact, if you type “Pollyanna” into Google, you get this definition: “An excessively cheerful or optimistic person” (emphasis added). No hint as to whether the girl could walk again. ~ Viktor Frankl, Will to Meaning. Alchemical recipes and the pursuit of the purified “lapis” or “philospher’s stone” are interpreted by Jung as a metaphor for the unconscious processes and the pursuit of wholeness: Jung describes how the alchemical texts begin with “the horrible darknesses of our mind” – corresponding to the first alchemical ingredient: The nigredo, or blackness is the initial state, either present from the beginning as a quality of the prima materia, the chaos, or massa confusa…. And what attitude did I drop when I was in the presence of my husband or friends who could withstand the “dark night of the soul” along with me? For Jung, ultimate meaning is found in “individuation” – which is the continuous pursuit of “wholeness” and the clarifying sense of purpose and place in the universe that attends it. Or an infection. How authentic or essential was it to me? Both methods call our “other,” unknown, “opposite” aspects into our conscious awareness – resulting in a greater sense of wholeness, and perhaps, eventually, purpose. Nancy will show you to your room. It is actually cognitively more difficult for us to make sense of negative events and realities. The young maid Nancy: bore a strong physical resemblance to my favorite babysitter. May 25, 2017 Disney Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Or if she lost one leg or both. It is the science that draws its master away from the suffering of this world and leads to the knowledge of future good. Source Or the “blackness” may also come out of states of separation, division, obligation, death, decay: …or else produced by the separation (solutio, separatio, divisio, putrefactio) of the elements. I (and I suggest that Jung and Frankl along with me) might advocate for a more laborious process that results in a distilled concoction of realism and meaning-making that empowers our survival, and makes real life, with all its sorrows, worth living. Perhaps the insufferable optimism belongs to the generations after Pollyanna’s that had forgotten what it was to be powerless in the face of common infectious disease and death. When I am filled with self-righteous anger I contemplate how it is likely connected to a shame I hold within myself. I imagine that a “glad thought” such as: “Now I never have to iron and starch father’s shirt collars ever again!” would do little to make her shattering loss feel meaningful. In 1964, a few years post-Pollyanna and Parent Trap, she starred in The Chalk Garden, playing a disturbed teenager navigating a relationship with her even more disturbed governess (Deborah Kerr). What are the rules and methods of the “game” that happens in the back of our brain and helps us to recontexualize our sufferings into something bearable, or maybe, even as Frankl states, “triumphant”? So perhaps Pollyanna’s shadow, the tediousness, the brainlessness actually emerged from the excesses and delusions of readers from a much later era with ready access to antibiotics. And I wonder about the vulnerabilities that lurk inside my strengths. The unfathomable terror was accompanied every moment by its opposite – extraordinary gratitude. Snow is both a widow and now a depressive bedridden “invalid.” Mr. Pendleton, the only surviving member of his family lives in near total isolation. Like God, then, the unconscious has two aspects; one good, favorable, beneficent, the other evil, malevolent, disastrous. In 1952, his parents decided that they wanted to move to Canada. Lives were shattered. Parents … We don’t even know what happened … Let it cease of itself, in a quarter of an hour everything will be in its own place. Like many famous people and celebrities, Pollyanna Woodward keeps her personal life private. ‘It was chicken that I wanted.’, ‘Oh, I’ve got that too,’ chuckled Pollyanna… ‘and calf’s food jelly’ triumphed Pollyanna. It means to be glad momentarily, to appreciate a baseline of minimum normality so that you can feel alive again. Pollyanna is the main character in the novel Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter, published in 1913 and the basis for a 1960 Disney movie. Pollyanna, named after her mother’s two lost sisters, was the only child from the marriage to survive: “the other babies had all died.” Her mother dies “several” years after Pollyanna’s birth. He goes further and states that in such circumstances: The difference between existential despair and emotional disease disappears. So perhaps Pollyanna was not only engaged in optimistic denial. In The Pollyanna Principle: Selectivity in Language, Memory, and Thought, published in 1978, M.W Matlin, and D.J. Feature films But now I’m sure it will be easier because I’ve got you Aunt Polly!”. We will continue to update information on Pollyanna Woodward’s parents. Pollyanna : Well, my father always used to say... Aunt Polly : Yes, well, never mind what your father used to say. Like many famous people and celebrities, Pollyanna McIntosh keeps her personal life private. The streets and woods Pollyanna walked through from scene to scene were the ones I walked along. Following the deaths of her parents, Pollyanna is sent to live with her wealthy maternal spinster aunt, Polly Harrington (Jane Wyman), in the town of Harrington, founded by the Harrington family. This is why life never ceases hold a meaning, for even a person who is deprived of creative and experiential values is still challenge by a meaning to fulfill, that is by the meaning inherent in an upright way of suffering. Was it part of my character? But the dictionary’s sample sentences reveal Pollyanna’s destructive shadow far more clearly: This is Pollyanna in her destructive aspect: A tedious, excessive, brainless, masochistically accepting, deluded, ludicrous opportunistic, ostrich to be avoided at all costs. This is the process that Pollyanna’s game initiates: To make contact with joy in the midst of sorrow – to reach for the union of the opposites – to wed opposing states together into some inseparable, relieving wholenesss. Personal Life. It wasn’t a popular book in the revolutionary era of the late sixties and early seventies, and it was not one that I talked about or shared with friends. It can have meaning if it changes you for the better. We typically process pleasant items more accurately and efficiently than unpleasant or neutral items, and we tend to make positive judgments about a wide variety of people, events, situations, and objects. But sometimes, when we have worked hard, and long, and with integrity (“with the true and not the fantastic imagination” as Jung’s alchemical sources point out) we see that we have successfully distilled the purest lapis, and are able to touch, for a moment, clear meaning, brief and relieving contact with our whole self, a larger view which grants us, like the hand of grace, a glimpse of our place and purpose in the world. When they arrive, Pollyanna is introduced to her aunt and Reverend Ford as they discuss this week’s sermon. That it offered me a template to begin to negotiate this “tension of opposites” that not only became the basis of how I would cope with the great and small sufferings – existential voids – in my own life –but how I would come to think of my profession. Maybe Pollyanna wasn’t merely advocating that everyone “just be glad” for gladness sake – but that they search out and claim the wisdom that woundedness can bring with it, in a world that was defined by ubiquitous illness and compound loss, and early death. Mr. Pendleton who had a dark dusty mansion with “skeletons in his closets” lived in my paternal grandmother’s home. An archetype which, when it is in possession of an individual personality, is experienced by others as oppressive, reality-denying, aggressively positive, dismissive of pain and complexity, who relentlessly enjoins others to “just be glad” as if happy thoughts were a panacea for the intractable suffering of the world. One reason parents will appreciate this story is because of Pollyanna's "glad game." TWO POLLYANNAS attempts to show what it was like being them behind closed doors and between Live posts to Facebook. If the separated condition is assumed at the start, as sometimes happens, then a union of opposites is performed. By whatashrinkthinks “There was no reply. But strangely, as I re-read this old story for the first time in adulthood, after many losses and my first personal introduction to my eventual death – I found myself underlining passages, jotting down notes in the margins. After bringing her new pet home, Trena was dismayed to discover that her parents intended to fatten Pollyanna for the family Christmas lunch. Jimmy Bean’s orphanage was superimposed over the “old folks home” that was on the other side of our village. Pollyanna, in her function as logotherapist extraordinaire, demonstrates. Her name is Pollyanna Whittier. Yet despite her aunt's austere nature, the orphaned girl still manages to find things to appreciate about her new home and the other people in her community. Biography. She meets Nancy and Thomas who escort her to her aunt’s home. I—I don’t happen to enjoy a very extensive personal acquaintance with the little lady as yet; but lots of my patients do—I’m thankful to say!” The nurse smiled. Pollyanna creates a paradoxical dialogue where Mrs. Snow’s resistance (her fear of daring to want anything ever again after surviving with a presumably traumatic loss and an unnamed debilitating illness) is no longer able to keep her out of contact with her repressed desires. Until the orphan girl, Pollyanna, moves in with her strict aunt in New England. Pollyanna, named after her mother’s two lost sisters, was the only child from the marriage to survive: “the other babies had all died.” Her mother dies “several” years after Pollyanna’s birth. I thought it would give my chemo-addled brain a rest. Once when father felt especially bad he counted ‘em. Aunt Polly, her guardian “was forty now, and quite alone in the world. The world of Pollyanna is saturated with pain, death, guilt, suffering and loss. The tittle of this book is from the main character of this novel, Pollyanna. You are "invited" to meet with … An example of the Pollyanna Effect? He first taught her the game one Christmas when Pollyanna was hoping for a doll, but the only gift sent to her poor family was a pair of tiny crutches. I know what you mean, something plagues you. Pollyanna's family and neighbors are White. You need to find reasons to stay attached to life itself. He then dies when Pollyanna is eleven. When she was 12, her parents passed away and she went to live with her Aunt Polly in Harrington, where her optimistic views change several of the townsfolk's lives for the better. If you look up Pollyanna in the Oxford Dictionary here is the definition that you will find: Noun: An excessively cheerful or optimistic person. And this winter, as I found one life stripped out from under me yet again, and as I moved toward a new way of living in the world– a yearning for the consoling company of Pollyanna awoke in my heart. As logotherapy teaches, even the tragic and negative aspects of life, such as unavoidable suffering, can be turned into a human achievement by the attitude which a man adopts toward his predicament. You need to locate what you are grateful for, what gives your life purpose and keeps you here. Or maybe it was because I had relied heavily on Pollyanna through a tumultuous childhood, marked by high conflict divorces and remarriages, dramatic relocations and changes of circumstance and position. Jung sees ancient alchemical texts and recipes, as an externalizing projection, a model, a template that can help us understand the stages and processes of meaning-making that take place in the unconscious. But as Jung would remind us, an archetype’s power is drawn from its bivalence – every archetype has two faces: The Great Mother is both nurturing and devouring. Written in 1913, the story tells how Pollyanna’s parents die and she moves in with an aunt who doesn’t want her. Presumably, Pollyanna (and the rest of us) can’t merely summon any trivial “glad” thing that may emerge from a painful loss or trauma. And what are the special ingredients of this wonder-working—tonic of hers?” The doctor shook his head. Portrayed by ‘But that is what I didn’t want,’ sighed the sick woman, sure now of what her stomach craved. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Pollyanna_(character)?oldid=4339796. in alchemy, Archetype, Bereavement, branches of psychotherapy, Death & Dying, Depth psychology, logotherapy, psychoanalytic theory, Shadow, Trauma These repetitive processes seem to mirror of the cyclic waves of hot searing pain, followed by cooling detachment that cycle through us after loss, or exposure to traumatic events. Paradoxical intervention is one of Frankl’s primary logotherapeutic methods: What then is going on when paradoxical intention is applied? Frankl acknowledges the optimistic bent of his theory and therapeutic practice – that it is inherently “optimistic” to imagine that meaning may be found even in the most horrific events. So she grew up with an effusive optimism and invented “The Glad Game,” which she invited others to play with her. Experience of the opposites has nothing whatever to do with intellectual insight or with empathy. Pollyanna Her father, who has buried all the other babies, as well as his wife, continues to minister to his … You can help Disney Wiki by expanding it. In particular, the Pollyanna Effect — the tendency for schools to wrap their messages so nicely that you don't hear their actual concerns — throws many parents of color for a loop. Snow had lived forty years, and for fifteen of those years she had been too busy wishing things were different to find much time to enjoy things as they were…”. This is what Frankl calls meaning. And he will not know it even on his deathbed. For me? An integrated chiaroscuro of light and dark is the only way to depict a whole image. This is something her father taught her – he explained that even when things aren't going our way, there is always something to be glad about. Ars totum requirit hominem!” exclaims an old alchemist. Optimistic counterparts, in contrast, were motivate to struggle for survival because they believed things would work out well for them. Experiential values emerge from relationships that connect us to something larger – love, friendship, relationships to nature, beauty, pleasure and for some, religious experience. The final scene is the town waving goodbye to Pollyanna, now on a train headed to Baltimore for an operation, accompanied by Aunt Polly and her new hunky boyfriend (probably accounts for Aunty Polly’s new glow). She uses her influence to run all aspects of the town, even telling Reverend Ford (Karl Malden) to preach fire and brimstone on Sundays, which makes the congregation miserable. Positivity was out, cynicism was in. Polly Harrington (aunt) A new task then arises to lift this still undeveloped mind step by step closer to a higher level and to increase the number of persons who have at least some inkling of the scope of paradoxical truth, “’Now I want you to see what I’ve brought you!’, ‘Why, I don’t want anything as I know of…’, ‘Guess! At school recess we secretly passed around dog-eared paperbacks of the Exorcist and shocked each other by reading the most blasphemous bits in a whisper when the playground aids weren’t watching. ‘I was just bound you should have what you wanted for once.’. Or if she died of a clot on the operating table. That word—excessive—explains the general resistance to adopting Pollyanna’s cheerful attitude; there is such a thing as being too cheerful and optimistic. The story line of Pollyanna, based on the 1913 novel by that name, is that the young daughter of missionary parents was sent to live with her aunt after both of Pollyanna’s parents had died. Your home is very lovely. Peter was born in Helsinki, Finland in the year 1943 to a humble family of bakers. Maybe it was comments like these that summoned her from the sub-basement of my memory: “Such a terrific outlook you have on all of this.”. I thought it might be soothing. In the darkness of anything external to me I find, without recognizing it as such, and interior and psychic life that is my own. Pollyanna is a 1960 feature film, starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden, and Richard Egan, in a story about a cheerful orphan Perhaps she is engaged in youthful attempts to extract meaning from tragic experience, fully in acceptance of the devastating and depressing vicissitudes of life and yet still, reaching for the “tension of the opposites” as Jung would call it. Casper introduced Pollyanna’s current initiatives, including conferences, assessments and the curriculum. The town’s people adopt Pollyanna’s methods and make them their own – so much so that when she is struck by a new-fangled automobile and paralyzed they are able to share all the gladness and gratitude that her father’s game has given them, and support Pollyanna in finding hope and motivation to push herself toward recovery and rehabilitation. The labours of the doctor as well as the quest of the patient are directed towards that hidden and as yet unmanifest “whole” man, who is at once the greater and the future man. And without realizing it Ms. Porter had uncovered a national and generational archetype, a freckled sprite that seemed to embody the cultural myth of enduring American optimism. The same suffering and the same struggling unites you, in fact, with the best exemplars of humanity. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. 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