Psyche's Confusion

In class today, we talked about how confused Orual is and how confused the people are by making Psyche into some type of goddess. Although at this point we are not quite sure who exactly Psyche is, but I think the people made Psyche believe that she is a goddess. After the encounter with the woman and her child when Psyche was with Redival that Orual found out about. Psyche did not know what she was doing, she did what the lady said. After this moment people started to believe she was goddess, so I think this made her think she was a goddess. After she helped a few more people and the Fox, more people came to the gates. Although her "healing powers" may have become coincidental, I think that she felt like she was needed. Later in the book, when she talks to Orual before she was brought to the mountain, she talked about longing for something, but she didn't know what she was longing for. Maybe when she was healing the people she saw herself as being needed. She was trying to fulfill that longing feeling. After she realized that being a "healer" was not what she was, she found out what she was longing for. I think that is why she was willing to go to the mountain, because she saw what she was longing for. She realized that the mountain was where everything that beautiful was. I think that Psyche is very confused about who she is. Although we do not know much about what happened when she was younger, we can come to the conclusion that she was influence a lot about what who she is. Psyche is a very smart girl, being taught by a Greek philosopher taught her a lot. However she seems to have no mind of her own, being influenced by the world around her. Of what we heard of the old story, we can see that she is effected by what people tell her by not caring about who her lover is. Then her sisters tell her about the plan of finding out who he is. Psyche seems be controlled by everyone around her, but when your name means mind, it could mean the lack there-of the mind.