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The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Princeton Classics, 14) Paperback – May 4, 2015
| Erich Neumann (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
| Martin Liebscher (Foreword) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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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 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.
- Print length624 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPrinceton University Press
- Publication dateMay 4, 2015
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.7 x 8.5 inches
- ISBN-100691166072
- ISBN-13978-0691166070
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- Publisher : Princeton University Press; Revised edition (May 4, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 624 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0691166072
- ISBN-13 : 978-0691166070
- Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.7 x 8.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #204,444 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #101 in Behaviorism Psychology
- #116 in Jungian Psychology (Books)
- #151 in Behavioral Psychology (Books)
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Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2018
The work is incredibly profound and interesting for vast audience.
The font is very small, it hurts eyes to read long. A lot of empty space which to my mind is wasted.
I would suggest to check previous versions of this book.
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2021
The work is incredibly profound and interesting for vast audience.
The font is very small, it hurts eyes to read long. A lot of empty space which to my mind is wasted.
I would suggest to check previous versions of this book.
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I decided to buy a second hand copy of the Princeton/Bollingen 1972 edition, and it's perfect! I recommend any interested reader to do the same, or to purchase the Kindle edition.
Another thing about this new 2015 edition: it comes with a horrible foreword by somebody called Martin Liebscher, where he says things like "most archaelogical scholars today agree that there is no evidence for ancient worship of the Great Mother goddess, and that it was to a great extent a creation of nineteenth- and twentieth-century academics from Bachofen via Jung, Campbell, and Neumann to Gimbutas." Incredible! It's like having a new edition of Darwin's On the Origins of Species with a foreword saying "of course all this evolution thing is nonsense; most scholars today agree that there is no evidence for it, and that God created all species in three days". Baffling.
I wanted to return this book and get a refund, but sadly I waited until I got the 1972 edition, and it took more than a month to arrive (shipping from the US to Spain), so now I'm stuck with this crap edition too. It's too bad to even think of giving it to some friend. It will go into the recycle bin.
Fiquei com dor de cabeça de ler, e eu tenho uma boa visão, não preciso de óculos pra ler nem nada.
Se você gosta de escrever nas margens você vai adorar, tem quilômetros de papel nas bordas.
Recomendo que você tente outra edição.










