- Hardcover: 204 pages
- Publisher: BookWorld Press,U.S.; Reprint edition (31 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0919123414
- ISBN-13: 978-0919123410
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,012,907 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Paperback
The basic premise behind this book is that a deadly combination of a patriarchal society and misguided parenting does a pretty thorough job of crippling the person we might have been. The search to find those missing or stillborn parts of ourselves can be started at any time but typically begins at a time of crisis, often in mid-life. This book is about that search and how reconnecting with our personal identity can be a lonely and isolating journey fraught with difficulty but one that, with luck, leads to renewal and freedom.
It is specifically written from a feminine perspective, since it mirrors the author's own journey and although men will find much of interest here, they may struggle to grasp aspects that specifically relate to the inner reality of being a woman. There is much talk in the book of the Great(Earth)Mother and getting in touch with the Goddess within but it isn't some New Age feel good stuff she speaks of but a much darker frightening aspect of femininity. In fact, the stifled parts of the feminine which don't want to be defined by pandering to daddys, boyfriends and bosses ideas of how women should be.
If it sounds like a feminist rant against men, well it isn't and she points out that men are equally victims of damaging notions of masculinity and a failure to connect with their own feminine side. However it is a very partisan book, Marion Woodman makes little attempt to take a detached academic stance over the matters she writes about and this is a passionate wake up call to women. Sadly, her call will not be heard by most of them. Since she wrote this in 1985 we've entered an era when too many women's concerns revolve around their bust size and those who would benefit most in freeing themselves from introjected ideas of femininity will never read this book in a million years.
My only reservation about the book is that it's good at identifying the problem but vague at offering solutions. It couldn't be otherwise because everyone's journey is unique and what is right for one won't be for another. However, many people will read it and say 'Yep, that's me but what do I do next?'
I've written this review because it's a superb book and there are no UK reviews but I'm a bloke. Come on ladies, you're the ones who can really say if this book hits the spot.
It is specifically written from a feminine perspective, since it mirrors the author's own journey and although men will find much of interest here, they may struggle to grasp aspects that specifically relate to the inner reality of being a woman. There is much talk in the book of the Great(Earth)Mother and getting in touch with the Goddess within but it isn't some New Age feel good stuff she speaks of but a much darker frightening aspect of femininity. In fact, the stifled parts of the feminine which don't want to be defined by pandering to daddys, boyfriends and bosses ideas of how women should be.
If it sounds like a feminist rant against men, well it isn't and she points out that men are equally victims of damaging notions of masculinity and a failure to connect with their own feminine side. However it is a very partisan book, Marion Woodman makes little attempt to take a detached academic stance over the matters she writes about and this is a passionate wake up call to women. Sadly, her call will not be heard by most of them. Since she wrote this in 1985 we've entered an era when too many women's concerns revolve around their bust size and those who would benefit most in freeing themselves from introjected ideas of femininity will never read this book in a million years.
My only reservation about the book is that it's good at identifying the problem but vague at offering solutions. It couldn't be otherwise because everyone's journey is unique and what is right for one won't be for another. However, many people will read it and say 'Yep, that's me but what do I do next?'
I've written this review because it's a superb book and there are no UK reviews but I'm a bloke. Come on ladies, you're the ones who can really say if this book hits the spot.
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Deep, Poignant, Insightful and meaningful
1 Dec 2004
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I tend to get attracted by a sort of synchronicity or intuitive feeling to certain books that resonate with the current process of what I call my spiritual journey. This book is one of those I would cherish and remember, and refer to, and meditate upon it. It is not only writen by someone deeply in touch with psychological understanding but also by a person inmersed consciously on her spiritual path, or inner journey towards enlightnement or liberation or full awakening of consciousness as you wish to name this subtile and many times confusing path.
Marion Woodman had a sort of blockage on her path of writing this book and she finally realized that she was feeling somewhow affraid of not being able to unite her writing with feeling and her writing with psychological knowledge and insight. But she does a wonderful work by not only helping us with her deep understanding of the Psyche and its own language, but also, by opening her own heart and her own wounds to all of us, like she does in poignant chapter 7.
This book has helped me find and recognise more subtile layers of aspects of myself that needed to be aknowledged and liberated. Althought we sometimes seem to have accomplished major inner work, there's many times subtilities left that are blocking the way to integrity, wholeness, hapiness. This book came when I was uncovering unconscious aspects of my mother and my father's own wounds and how I had absorbed them as baby and child, integrating them in myself in a confusing mixture that didn't allow me to heal it because I couldnt find their root and thus I didn't understand their effect on me.
This whole summer's been an intense trip to the Underworld and books that also helped me where: The Dark Moon Goddess by Demetra George and Clarissa Pinkola Estés,Women Who Run With Wolves. Also, Anatomy of the Psyche by Edward Edinger since it explains the alchemical operations in terms of psychological processes and for some reason or other, I do resonate to this language and inner transformation process...
Marion Woodman had a sort of blockage on her path of writing this book and she finally realized that she was feeling somewhow affraid of not being able to unite her writing with feeling and her writing with psychological knowledge and insight. But she does a wonderful work by not only helping us with her deep understanding of the Psyche and its own language, but also, by opening her own heart and her own wounds to all of us, like she does in poignant chapter 7.
This book has helped me find and recognise more subtile layers of aspects of myself that needed to be aknowledged and liberated. Althought we sometimes seem to have accomplished major inner work, there's many times subtilities left that are blocking the way to integrity, wholeness, hapiness. This book came when I was uncovering unconscious aspects of my mother and my father's own wounds and how I had absorbed them as baby and child, integrating them in myself in a confusing mixture that didn't allow me to heal it because I couldnt find their root and thus I didn't understand their effect on me.
This whole summer's been an intense trip to the Underworld and books that also helped me where: The Dark Moon Goddess by Demetra George and Clarissa Pinkola Estés,Women Who Run With Wolves. Also, Anatomy of the Psyche by Edward Edinger since it explains the alchemical operations in terms of psychological processes and for some reason or other, I do resonate to this language and inner transformation process...
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Deep inciteful book!
29 Oct 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
A therapist friend encouraged me to read this book. I love Woodman's vision and understanding of the female psyche. It was quite enlightening.
28 of 55 people found the following review helpful
So good I stayed home to read it for 4 days
17 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
This book spoke directly to me. I read it first in the mid 1980's, so much of the contents is now irretrievable, but I wanted to let other shoppers know how much this book helped me. I am so happy to find it again.
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