Scholars like Sir James Fraser, Erich Neumann, Joseph Cambell, Will Durant and most Biblical Scolars of the19th and early 20th century wrote persuasive stories about the meanings of the figurines found by archeologists’ studying Prehistory, Ancient Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. The scholars argued that they figurines represented Mother Goddesses, Fertility Figurines, and perfect images of elite or royal Egyptian women. Modern feminist archeologists have questioned these visual tropes and have discovered that entirely different realities lay behind the stereotyped images. Like the fixed and usually idealized mental images of their parents that our patients carry from childhoods these sterotyped images are difficult to dislodge. With new archeological findings and depictions of the figurines I shall paint a very different picture of the ancient icons illustrating how an analytic perspective of the past can reveal fresh and liberating insights into both the present and the past.