Feminist Archetypal Theory: Interdisciplinary Re-Visions of Jungian Thought

by Estella Lauter

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870494473
• ISBN13: 9780870494475
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.

Customer Reviews

too bad it's only available used

This collection of essays challenges the Jungian tendency to prize "the Feminine" and its various images while ignoring women's actual experience. Feminist archetypal theory confronts the ongoing exaltation of socially constructed experience as archetypal, a mental habit that turns traditional stereotypes into absolutes and puts men in a false position of authority (as when male analysts claim to understand women because they have worked on their anima). I'd like to see this book updated and reissued with more essays added. Seven does not do justice to the importance of this discussion.