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by Erich Neumann; Ralph Manheim (Translator); Foreword by Martin Liebscher

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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.

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  • Title The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
  • Author Erich Neumann; Ralph Manheim (Translator); Foreword by Martin Liebscher
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition NEW TRA
  • Pages 624
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Publication date 2015-05-04
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780691166070 / 0691166072
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.7 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 4.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Religious
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Psychology
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.2

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Erich Neumann (1905-60), a psychologist and philosopher, was born in Berlin and lived in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death. His books include The Origins and History of Consciousness, The Fear of the Feminine, and Amor and Psyche (all Princeton). Martin Liebscher is associate professor at the School of European Languages, Culture, and Society at University College London.

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