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The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype

By Ralph Manheim , Erich Neumann

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
0691166072, 9780691166070
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
36 MB (37474065 bytes)
Series
Princeton Classics
Pages
432\0
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2018-01-29 10:42:54

Description

With a New foreword by Martin Liebscher 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. Featuring a new foreword by Martin Liebscher, this Princeton Classics edition of The Great Mother introduces a new generation of readers to this profound and enduring work.

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