Goddesses in Everywoman
A New Psychology of Women
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of readers with a new introduction by the author. Psychoanalyst Jean Bolen's career soared in the early 1980s when Goddesses in Everywoman was published. Thousands of women readers became fascinated with identifying their own inner goddesses and using these archetypes to guide themselves to greater self–esteem, creativity, and happiness.
Bolen's radical idea was that just as women used to be unconscious of the powerful effects that cultural stereotypes had on them, they were also unconscious of powerful archetypal forces within them that influence what they do and how they feel, and which account for major differences among them. Bolen believes that an understanding of these inner patterns and their interrelationships offers reassuring, true–to–life alternatives that take women far beyond such restrictive dichotomies as masculine/feminine, mother/lover, careerist/housewife. And she demonstrates in this book how understanding them can provide the key to self–knowledge and wholeness.
Dr. Bolen introduced these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women could identify, from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite, and explains how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become a better "heroine" in one's own life story.
Customer Reviews
OMG I’ve been looking for this book!
I read this book in the year 2000, and it changed my life. I actually started journaling, at the behest of this author, by answering the questions she asked. It started me on a life-long journey of musing myself to clarity, by writing. It's now twenty-one years later and I have stacks and reams of completed journals full of self-exploration and resulting clarity.
But I lost the book!!
I must have lent it to someone. I've searched my entire collection several times over for this book. It was gone, and I couldn’t remember the title or author. Someone just now mentioned this book on a youtube interview; I looked it up, and OMG this is THE BOOK!!! I’m so excited to find it again. I wil buy it and never, ever lend it again.