Morig Quotes

At the start of the novel, the reader is quickly aware that Pique has run away from home which causes Morag to dig deep into her collective unconscious to try and come to terms with herself to reason Pique’s sudden departure. One soon realizes that the mother-daughter relationship between Pique and Morag is very important in guiding Morag to accept and move on from her past. Pique is a strong individual who is set on finding and exploring her roots. As she grew up knowing very little of her heritage, Pique is set on finding her birth father and in the process, toughens and becomes stronger and more independent. Upon reading the note Pique had left for Morag, she thinks, “Something about Pique’s going, apart from the actual departure itself,
In a similar way, when Pique returns and is settled with Morag and Dan, she recognizes that she cannot benefit from Dan’s work or lifestyle without coming to terms with herself and continuing on her path to selfhood. The mother-daughter pair each realize that they must be able to care for themselves in order to embrace their inner beings and must move past the need to be loved and go on to love themselves. The importance of Morag’s role as the maternal figure to Pique is emphasizes when Morag refers to her daughter as “[the] harbinger of my death, continuer of life” (312)2. Here Morag continues to come to terms with her past but also her future and this “recognition of her daughter’s adulthood is also a recognition of her own mortality”4. This acknowledgement of the future is what pushes her closer to fully establishing and becoming an individual according to Jung. Therefore, it is clear that Morag’s role as a mother and the relationship between her and Pique helped her in the end stages of individuation and what prepared her for the final stages of stabilizing her