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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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2015Print ISBN
9780691017808
9780691097428
eBook ISBN
9781400866106
INDEX
INDEX
An asterisk following a page number indicates an illustration on that page. Plate references are indicated in italic.
A
abaissement du niveau mental, 27, 294
abasement, 305
abduction, 306, 320
Abraham the Jew, Pl. 171
abstract symbols, 19n
abstraction, 104–13, 109*, 110*, 112*, 113*, 119; Pls. 4, 6–8, 17–21, 22, 24, 30b, 32
Abydos, Egypt, 131–32, 161; Pl. 4
abyss, 27, 44, 170
Adam, 50, 58, 135, 255, 259
Adonis, 49, 128, 163, 198, 223, 243; Pl. 104
Aegean Islands, 103, 106, 112, 113*, 113n, 142*; Pl. 24
Aeon, 312
Aeschylus, 231
affectivity, 4
Africa, 62–63, 90, 114, 129–30, 133–35, 153, 168, 244, 268; Pls. 18–19, 39, 42–43, 78, 105
aggression drive, 41
Agni, 311
agriculture, 51n, 191, 284
Ahabit, 162
Ajax, 302
Akkadian period, 143, 229, 312*, 313*; Pls. 33b, 73, 101a, 157c
Albright, William Foxwell, 96n, 164n
alchemy, 60–61, 144, 219, 234n, 276, 323, 326, 335&n; Pls. 57, 110, 169–71
alco...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition
- Foreword
- Note of Acknowledgment
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Text Figures
- Preface
- Part: I
- Part: II
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
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