This is a study of women's fear of success. It presents an account of the developmental and intrapsychic elements that have created the paradoxical situation in which women fear to achieve what they have long desired - in an age when external obstacles to female success are being lifted.
A poem by the architect Francis C. Klein using the Sisyphus theme notes the inexorable nature of the enantiodromia spoken of by Jung:10 What would he have done having reached his height? Stake the great rock down with ropes and rods ...