Great Mother An Analysis of the Archetype

Name: Great Mother An Analysis of the Archetype
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ISBN: 9780691166070

ISBN-10: 0691166072

ISBN-13: 9780691166070

Edition: 2015 (Revised)

Authors: Erich Neumann, Ralph Manheim, Martin Liebscher

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This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has been represented as goddess, monster, gate, pillar, tree, moon, sun, vessel, and every animal from snakes to birds. Neumann discerns a universal experience of the maternal as both nurturing and fearsome, an experience rooted in the dialectical relation of growing consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the unconscious and the unknown, symbolized…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/15/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 624
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.46" long x 1.69" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English