The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Works by Erich Neumann Book 15)

evidence of the woman viewed mythologically both as the guardian of the hearth and as the mother of the individual’s maturity, the individual’s spiritual life.

the precise meaning of the anima paradigm has become seriously diluted in Jungian studies. Under the rubric of this fantasy, there is a rich trade of “smuggled hypotheses, pretty pieties about eros, and eschatological indulgences about saving one’s soul through relationship, becoming more feminine, and the sacrifice of the intellect.”

Archetypes are the “software” of the psyche.

Each archetypal principle can express itself in both positive and problematic form. Each can express itself in the context of the individual life and psyche or on a collective level. Each has a potential for both feminine and masculine