[PDF] Tracking The Wild Woman Archetype eBook

Author : Clarissa Pinkola Estés Phd
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 1996-11-27
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0345409876

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than 2.7 million copies sold! • “A deeply spiritual book [that] honors what is tough, smart and untamed in women.”—The Washington Post Book World Book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

Author : Michaela Boehm
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
ISBN : 1501179896

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"As pragmatic as it is compassionate, this intimate, humorous, and ultimately relaxing invitation to re-wild yourself, stripping away all that is not your true nature, will leave you inspired and curious to discover the wild woman within" (Lissa Rankin, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Mind Over Medicine). For the high-achieving modern woman today, having a successful career, a fulfilling romantic relationship, and a satisfying personal life can feel like opposing goals. It has even become difficult to take the time to enjoy the simple pleasures in lives. We are stuck in "go-mode," damaging our romantic relationships, pleasure, and creativity. But what if there were a way to experience the simplest pleasures of our lives on a deeper level, freeing the body and psyche from these destructive patterns? Beyond our current stereotypes about femininity lies the ancient wisdom of the Wild Woman archetype, a model of building a feminine "body intelligence." By embodying this archetype and using tantra--not just in the bedroom, but also to build intimate connections to our senses and physical movements--we can break harmful psychological patterns. In The Wild Woman's Way, Michaela Boehm shares practical rituals and exercises drawn from years of experience as a celebrity relationship and life counselor and an expert in tantric yoga. She reveals the power of different types of touch, while also training you in forms of meditation and stretching that increase activity and sensual pleasure.

Author : Susan Rowland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317202295

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In Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide, Susan Rowland demonstrates how ideas such as archetypes, the anima and animus, the unconscious and synchronicity can be applied to the analysis of literature. Jung’s emphasis on creativity was central to his own work, and here Rowland illustrates how his concepts can be applied to novels, poetry, myth and epic, allowing a reader to see their personal, psychological and historical contribution. This multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach challenges the notion that Jungian ideas cannot be applied to literary studies, exploring Jungian themes in canonical texts by authors including Shakespeare, Jane Austen and W. B. Yeats as well as works by twenty-first century writers, such as in digital literary art. Rowland argues that Jung’s works encapsulate realities beyond narrow definitions of what a single academic discipline ought to do, and through using case studies alongside Jung’s work she demonstrates how both disciplines find a home in one another. Interweaving Jungian analysis with literature, Jungian Literary Criticism explores concepts from the shadow to contemporary issues of ecocriticism and climate change in relation to literary works, and emphasises the importance of a reciprocal relationship. Each chapter concludes with key definitions, themes and further reading, and the book encourages the reader to examine how worldviews change when disciplines combine. The accessible approach of Jungian Literary Criticism: the essential guide will appeal to academics and students of literary studies, Jungian and post-Jungian studies, literary theory, environmental humanities and ecocentrism. It will also be of interest to Jungian analysts and therapists in training and in practice.

Author : Janell Flores Bolte
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 2024-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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It began happening almost immediately. The signs were clear and distinctly familiar. They came through music, dreams, nature and sometimes even strangers. John was communicating from the other side. His death was not the end of our relationship. On the contrary, it revealed a new way of communicating. It was a deepening of the bond that had been forged during twenty years together as a couple and an epic cancer journey. Healing is a spiral and there is no right way to pick up the pieces. There is only your way. And the path appears in the heart of every person who dares to look for it. Everyone has access to their loved ones who have crossed. You don’t need to buy a crystal ball or hold seances (unless you want to), because this book shares practical tools for bridging worlds since they do, in fact, exist simultaneously. In times of uncertainty, know this to be true...Love never dies.

Author : Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Publisher : Random House
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 10,71 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1846041090

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According to the author, the 'wild woman' is the wise and ageless presence in the feminine psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power.

Author : Lillian Lohr Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 1998
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The purpose of this paper is to observe and analyze the archetype of the Wild Woman. First, I will examine the Jungian literature on the feminine; second, I offer a psychological analysis of a 9th-century Irish Celtic romance; third, I study the Wild Woman's evolution as she appears in the life and literature of modern women; and finally, I consider her in typology. Beginning *in feminine psychology and proceeding to myth and contemporary literature, this dissertation emphasizes the archetypal patterns which create the Wild Woman and the conditions which transform her. The study applies a hermeneutic method to archetypal and fairy-tale sources. The great variety of archetypal possibilities for women have, over the centuries, become narrowed to a few. Gradually even these have become more stereotypic than archetypic, as women were made to believe their darker experiences and biology should be hidden and shameful concerns. But a reverse movement has come into being as well. The "return of the goddess" to the culture means a return of the power and importance of the feminine, as well as an increasing variety and complexity of the feminine. It promises a new era blending patriarchal and matriarchal values, and offers an incentive to reread woman and myth in light of this new understanding. The study examines the wild/wise (or wild/medial) archetype and its split, which set the conditions necessary for creating the feral woman, the Wild Woman. Then it examines the magical, mercurial appearance of a wise, healing agent in the soul who leads to a reverse in her condition until she is contained, loved, washed, and redeemed, becoming the Wise Woman she was called to be. The fourth chapter considers the development of the archetype of the Wild Woman as she evolved over the last century in the real life of Irish activist Maud Gonne, in the fictional life of a modern Canadian protagonist of the 70ies, and in the drawings of a Jungian analysand's dreams. The study concludes with an application of the Wild Woman archetype to an amended version of Edmund Whitmont's theory of feminine psychological types. The focal question here is, how can the Wild Woman, in her negative aspect (as the Medusa), be integrated into the feminine personality? To close, I have sketched a personal shield of a Wild /Wise Woman to illustrate how she enters a woman's life at various life passages.