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The Great Mother

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Great Mother

By Erich Neumann

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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 experi...Show more

Analytical and Jungian psychology
Psychology of gender
Life sciences: general issues

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9780691166070

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2015

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1

Original title

The Great Mother

Format

Paperback

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