The Great Mother
His seminal work investigates the Great Mother as a primal picture of the human soul. In this book, famous analytical psychologist Erich Neumann examines how this archetype has shown itself in numerous cultures and eras throughout history, drawing on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fancies. He demonstrates how the feminine has been portrayed as goddesses, monsters, gates, pillars, trees, moons, suns, vessels, and all kinds of animals, from snakes to birds. Neumann recognizes a universal sense of the maternal as both comforting and frightening, an experience founded in the dialectical relationship between rising awareness, symbolized by the infant, and the unconscious and unknown, signified by the Great Mother.
This Princeton Classics edition of The Great Mother, with a new prologue by Martin Liebscher, exposes a new generation of readers to this profound and lasting masterpiece.
