A landmark account of the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. In this book, the distinguished analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws from rituals, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how the archetype of the Great Mother has been externally expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has been represented as a goddess, monster, gate, pillar, tree, moon, sun, vessel, and every animal from snakes to birds. Neumann distinguishes a universal human experience of motherhood as both tender and terrifying, an experience rooted in the dialectical relationship of increasing consciousness, symbolized by the child, with the unconscious and unknown, symbolized by the Great Mother. With a foreword by Martin Liebscher, The Great Mother is a profound and enduring work by one of the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century.
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Language
- English
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 624
- Release Date
- 20/01/2026
- Publication Date
- 2026
- Dimensions
- -
- ISBN-13
- 9780691279053
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