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Alice, The Queen of Wonderland is a web site that explores the psychology of anorexia nervosa 
and cutting from the perspective of Jungian Psychology. Jungian psychology is about the life of the soul and its symbolic mythology.
Alice spends a lot of her time gazing at a curiously strange body in her looking glass. One night, while in a trance like state of mind, Alice felt herself being drawn through the silvery mist of her looking glass by the magnetism of an enchanting wonderland.
In Through the Looking Glass, Alice finally gets to become the Queen of her own Wonderland.
The Queen of Wonderland is about the fantasy life of the soul or dream-personality, while the existential life of the anorexic languishes in a state of anorexia nervosa.
Dreams and fantasy speak in a symbolic language because this was the original language of the mind before humans developed language skills and the ability to think in a rational manner. Since rationalism is no guarantee of truth, the unconscious psyche still uses its symbolic style of thinking in dreams, fantasies and in the so-called delusions of the anorexic.
Modern psychology, on the other hand, is only concerned with the ego and a literal interpretation of the cutter’s compulsion to self-harm and the anorexic’s protests. Because of this practice of literalizing, the only thing that a modern therapist can see in anorexia nervosa appears to him as delusions, lies and magical thinking. Jungian psychology trusts that the anorexic is not delusional, but that she is behaving in a dream-like symbolic manner that possesses a hidden meaning and purpose. This project explores the meaning and purpose behind a self-harming individual’s curious behaviour.