The Great Mother - An Analysis of the Archetype

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.

About the author

Erich Neumann
Translated by Ralph Manheim
With a new foreword by Martin Liebscher

Product details

• Authors: Erich Neumann, Neumann Erich
• Assisted by: Martin Liebscher (Foreword), Liebscher Martin (Foreword), R. Manheim (Translation), Ralph Manheim (Translation)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2015
• EAN: 9780691166070
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16607-0
• No. of pages: 624
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Bollingen Series (General); Princeton Classics; Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology; Works by Erich Neumann
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Couples & Family, Family psychology, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Psychology of gender, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian