Author: Neumann, Erich
Title: The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1991). orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, (379),185 pp, PAPERBACK.. 185pp plates. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time. Appearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the ungraspable matrix, symbolized by the Great Mother" - Publisher's description.

Keywords: History of Religion, Mother Goddess, Goddesses, Jungian Psychology, Myth Mythology, Archetype, Carl Gustav Jung, ,