The Great Mother : an analysis of the archetype /
Neumann, Erich,
The Great Mother : an analysis of the archetype / by Erich Neumann ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. - [New] edition / with a new foreword by Martin Liebscher. - xlix, 380 pages, 185 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. - Bollingen series ; XLVII Princeton classics . - Bollingen series ; XLVII. Princeton classics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780691166070 (pbk.) : £19.95
Mother goddesses.
Religion.
The Great Mother : an analysis of the archetype / by Erich Neumann ; translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. - [New] edition / with a new foreword by Martin Liebscher. - xlix, 380 pages, 185 pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm. - Bollingen series ; XLVII Princeton classics . - Bollingen series ; XLVII. Princeton classics. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780691166070 (pbk.) : £19.95
Mother goddesses.
Religion.
