Description
| Product ID: | 9780691166070 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Series: | Princeton Classics |
| Title: | The Great Mother |
| Subtitle: | An Analysis of the Archetype |
| Authors: | Author: Erich Neumann, Ralph Manheim |
| Page Count: | 624 |
| Subjects: | Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Family psychology, Psychology of gender, Family psychology, Psychology of gender |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 b 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 by the Great Mother. |
| Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-05-04 |
