An Image Darkly Forming: Women and Initiation

by Bani Shorter

Book Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0710205740
• ISBN13: 9780710205742
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
• Length: 154 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An Image Darkly Forming

A well-known Jungian analyst, Bani Shorter writes here about how women are initiated into becoming themselves. Her book is an important contribution to the field of Analytical Psychology as well as to the increasingly popular study of women's spirituality. In former times transitions from one stage of life to another were prepared for and marked by ritual initiation; in modern times this necessity is overlooked and women's natural development is made more difficult as a consequence. Through working in close therapeutic relationship with women, Bani Shorter found that when challenged by crises and transitions in their lives, today's women instinctively create rituals nevertheless to mark their journey toward maturation, wholeness and meaning. In this process they discover something of who they are and recognise dimensions of themselves which have been previously repressed and undreamed of. The stories unfolded here can be a guide for all women through their own rites of passage. --- from book's back cover