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This book describes contemporary woman's search for wholeness in a society in which she has been defined according to masculine values. Drawing upon cultural myths and fairy tales, ancient symbols and goddesses, and the dreams of contemporary women, Murdock illustrates the need for—and the reality of—feminine values in Western culture today.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent description of many women's lives,
By Inanna (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Heroine's Journey (Paperback)
This book is an accessible and easy to read description of a place many contemporary women find themselves in. Murdoch talks about how we separate from our mothers to take on the values of our fathers and our patriarchal society. We become women who are outwardly successful but something is missing - we are cut off from our feminine side. The book describes the journey to re-connect to the "deep feminine", heal the relationship with the mother, and integrate the feminine with the masculine. I found this book really useful - it illuminated and clarified what was happening to me, and I recognised myself in many of the descriptions. Murdoch quotes freely from many sources and the overall approach could be described as "feminist Jungian", (but don't let that put you off)! The book is easy to read and covers a broad canvas, so doesn't go as deep as some of the books it draws from, but is a really good introduction to the material (if you want to go deeper the references are there). My only caveat is that this book describes a particular kind of woman, and not all women will identify with all of it. But if you are a successful woman in your thirties, forties, fifties, sixties and you feel that despite your success, something is missing or wrong, then you may find that it is just the thing. I think it is great. I have recommended it to friends who have also loved it.
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This book contains real wisdom and practical insights.
We are all (or nearly all) damaged. The 'masculine' and 'feminine' parts of ourselves have been split and labelled 'better' and 'worse' than each other. We can see the results in our society (which as a man I would say still teaches us unconsciously that boys are better than girls, or vice versa, that killing is better than talking, ...). And we can see it in our trashing of the environment (which as I write this in early 2011 is beginning to impact us more, through the storms in Australia and the USA, and even (I would argue) Fukushima...). I am a man and I found this book one of the best, deepest, and most accurate and applicable psychology books I have read. There is real insight here. The Heroine's Journey is a journey of true healing, in a way that I believe the Hero's Journey is not. If just a fraction of the people on the planet could experience it, the world would be transformed.
7 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: The Heroine's Journey (Paperback)
While reading this book, I was happy to have many experiences which were synchronisticly tied with what I was reading. I.e. reading on Grandmother spider and having 2 such wonderful creatures greet me in the strangest of places. (One lived in a limo, (whom I spied as I was driven home) which I would not allow the driver to kill. Coming to terms with the anger I felt with my mother by finally piecing together some of my grandmother's behavior and her treatment of my own mother and what made her "react" to me in the way she did when I was a child. I think that there is a bit of magic here for all women bounded and gagged to their mothers who are struggling to finally grow up from under the apron and the cross. While it was similar to "Meeting the Madwoman" by Linda Leonard Schierse for it did stressed a process by which to come to peace within yourself, it did not have a lot of the psychologial jargon that Linda Schierse's books generally have. So that I would consider this book easier reading for those women who want the facts without too much sauce.
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