About this title: Using a typology based on the goddesses of Greek mythology, this exploration of the aspects of the female personality examines psychological patterns, character traits, and symptoms that need to be recognized before changes can take place. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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Edition: 20 Anv
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date Published: 3/2/2004
ISBN-13:9780060572846ISBN:0060572841
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial, New York
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060572846ISBN:0060572841
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060572846ISBN:0060572841
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Quill
Date Published: 2004-03-01
ISBN-13:9780060572846ISBN:0060572841
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Edition: 20 ANV
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: QUILL BOOKS
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780060572846ISBN:0060572841
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 Jea... read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York Harper & Row 1984.
Date Published: 1984
Description: /Dust Jacket Included. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD owners bookplate. 8 x 5 inches hard covers with dust jacket. First edition. Binding is hard covers. read more
"A very sweet for-mainstream-understanding book that gently lowers you into the many layered creature that is the human female. I personally favor more forceful fare normally, but I can see the importance for women just coming out of their shell, or simply anyone unfamiliar with the concepts presented."
"Goddesses in Everywoman is Bolen's groundbreaking work in which she assigns GReek goddesses to different aspects of the feminine psyche. For example, Aphrodite is identified as the part of the personality which is focused on romantic love. This book was influential in helping me establish my thesis topic."
"This book's subject is the intersection of ancient Greek polytheistic mythology and Jungian psychology. I don't mind Jungian psychology too much, even though I disagree with some of the major postulates. However, over the years I found a way for it to still work for me, as I see some importance even in the concepts I don't take on (i.e., collective unconscious). And as someone who grew up with Greek gods and goddesses being as much of childhood friends as fairy tales heroes, I was delighted to discover an adult way to play with them.
Jean Shinoda Bolen takes seven familiar Greek goddesses and puts on a new lens to look at them. Artemis/Diana, Athena/Minerva, Hestia/Vesta (the goddess of the hearth), Hera/Juno, Demeter/Ceres, Persephone/Proserpine, and Aphrodite/Venus. She sees the first three as the virginal goddesses ("virginal" in her view means not defined by any relationship to others, although they sometimes are seen as literal virgins as well), the second two as vulnerable goddesses (defined chiefly by their family role -- wife, mother, daughter), and Aphrodite, the Goddess of transforming vision.
Each chapter on a goddess covers her myth/s, discusses her archetypes and goes on to trace how this archetype can manifest itself in a girl's childhood, adolescence, adulthood and older age.
I have to admit, this book made me look at how either of these archetypes fit myself, and made me go down to research my own past quite a bit, looking for evidence for certain archetypes from my childhood and school years. I even had my Mom to read this book and discuss with the me the archetypes of women in my family.
Of course, men can find some of the archetypes of the goddesses as familiar forces at work in their own lives, both through their relationships with women and as the integral part of their own psyche.
For me, it became a very transformative book. I can see an analogy: my friend was telling me once how she would walk in the park and invite her own self of a 5 year old girl, 10 yeard old, a fifteen year old teen, an adult in her 20s, etc. to take a walk with her and have a conference about the things important for each one of them. Reading this book, if you are introspective memory lane walker, can provide you with the same experience."
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