num_pages: 624
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
publisher: Princeton University Press (NJ)