The Becoming

The Becoming is a unique memoir of an Indian girl who grew up to become a psychologist, expressed in the form of poetry that spans almost seventeen years. It narrates the metamorphosis of all the catalytic cameos a woman plays; a daughter, friend, sister, wife, mother and most of all a human being seeking to find meaning, worth, and purpose to make sense of her circumstances and experiences. A transformational journey that carries within it the hope of individuation. Categorized based on Carl Jung’s twelve archetypes like ‘The Rebel’, ‘The Philosopher’, ‘The Lover’, ‘The Altruist’ the poems reflect different moods and dispositions to give deep personal insights into human thought, feeling, and behaviour. The choice of artwork comprising of various artists has a personal appeal to the author. The theme surfs on emotions tilted towards constructive resilience and the peregrination of healing and coping. The author shares life’s incongruencies and analogies empathetically to allow the reader to reflect on various realms of consciousness and alchemize their own versions of Being.