The Great Mother - An Analysis of the Archetype (Paperback, Revised edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Works by Erich Neumann
Release date:	May 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Erich Neumann
Translators:	Ralph Manheim
Foreword by:	Martin Liebscher
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	624
Edition:	Revised edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-16607-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Social, group or collective psychology Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General
LSN:	0-691-16607-2
Barcode:	9780691166070

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