The Great Mother:
An Analysis of the Archetype
Erich Neumann
Translated by Ralph Manheim

Paper | 1972 | $29.95 / £17.95
432 pp.

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Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the ungraspable matrix, symbolized by the Great Mother.

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"Neumann's creative intuition has enabled him to read in these records of the past a content and meaning that throws a beam of light on the psychological history of [hu]mankind."--Journal of Analytical Psychology

Other Princeton books by Erich Neumann:

• Amor and Psyche: The Psychic Development of the Feminine: A Commentary on the Tale by Apuleius. (Mythos Series).
• The Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 1: Art and the Creative Unconscious.
• The Fear of the Feminine: And Other Essays on Feminine Psychology.
• The Origins and History of Consciousness.

Series:

• Works by Erich Neumann
• Mythos

Subject Areas:

• Mind, Body, Spirit
• Psychology
• Anthropology
• Gender Studies

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