The Great Mother (Mythos Books)
Contributors: Ralph Manheim (Translator)
Edition: 2 Reprint edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: July 1, 1972
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 614
ISBN-13: 9780691017808
Subjects: Myths & mythology; Sexual behaviour; Women's Studies - General; Jungian Psychology; Psychology; Comparative Religion; Movements - Behaviorism; Anthropology; Gender Studies; Mind, Body, Spirit; Social Science / Women's Studies; General
First sentence: WHEN analytical psychology speaks of the primordial image or archetype of the Great Mother, it is referring, not to any concrete image existing in space and time, but to an inward image at work in the human psyche.