Name: The Great Mother. An Analysis of the Archetype
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Author: Erich Neumann;Ralph Manheim
ISBN: 9780691279046

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Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Author

Erich Neumann;Ralph Manheim

Collection

Bollingen Series

Year

2026

Pages

624

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.50 x 15.60 cm

ISBN13

9780691279046

The Great Mother. An Analysis of the Archetype

Erich Neumann;Ralph Manheim (Author) · Princeton University Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Great Mother. An Analysis of the Archetype"

A landmark account of the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psycheIn this book, renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how the archetype of the Great Mother 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. With a foreword by Martin Liebscher, The Great Mother is a profound and enduring work by one of the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century.