The Great Mother : an analysis of the archetype /
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...
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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| Edition: | First Princeton classics edition. |
| Series: | Princeton classics.
Bollingen series ; 47. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION
- FOREWORD
- NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF PLATES
- LIST OF TEXT FIGURES
- PREFACE
- PART I
- Chapter One. THE STRUCTURE OF THE ARCHETYPE
- Chapter Two. THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE AND THE GREAT MOTHER
- Chapter Three. THE TWO CHARACTERS OF THE FEMININE
- Chapter Four. THE CENTRAL SYMBOLISM OF THE FEMININE
- Chapter Five. THE TRANSFORMATION MYSTERIES
- Chapter Six. THE FUNCTIONAL SPHERES OF THE FEMININE
- Chapter Seven. THE PHENOMENON OF REVERSAL AND THE DYNAMIC OF THE ARCHETYPE
- PART II
- A. THE ELEMENT AR Y CHARACTER
- Chapter Eight. INTRODUCTION
- Chapter Nine. THE PRIMORDIAL GODDESS
- Chapter Ten. THE POSITIVE ELEMENTARY CHARACTER
- Chapter Eleven. THE NEGATIVE ELEMENTARY CHARAc'rER
- B. THE TRANSFORMA 1"'IVE CHARACTER
- Chapter Twelve. THE GREAT ROUND
- Chapter Thirteen. THE LADY OF THE PLANTS
- Chapter Fourteen. THE LADY OF THE BEASTS
- Chapter Fifteen. SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ERICH NEUMANN
- INDEX
- PLATES