Through the Goddess: A Woman's Way of Healing
Reis is a proponent of feminist archetypal psychology, and presents in this work her thesis and the development of her methodology. Included is an analysis of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Viking, 1962) and frescoes in the Villa of Mysteries at Pompeii. At the outset, she states that current images of goddesses are reworked through the patriarchal imagination, leaving women voiceless and seeking their own images and mythologies. Using pre-patriarchal goddess images, Reis shows us a more earthy, many-faceted goddess in whom creation and destruction, life and death are all contained--a figure closer to women's experience of life than Greek and Roman examples. Recommended for most women's studies or psychology collections.- Marilyn E. Schafer, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic Coll., TorontoCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.