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Featuring a new foreword by Martin Liebscher, this Princeton Classics edition of The Great Mother introduces a new generation of readers to this profound and enduring work.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294102139253,"sku":"9780691166070","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691166070_dc948605-4d52-4a57-99c1-4c4a139a88c1.jpg?v=1786032965"},{"product_id":"9780691034737","title":"The Fear of the Feminine – And Other Essays on Feminine Psychology","description":"These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. Neumann recommended a \"cultural therapy\" that he thought would redress a \"fundamental ignorance\" about feminine and masculine psychology, and he looked for societal healing to a \"matriarchal consciousness\" that forms the bridge between the feminine and the creative. Brought together here for the first time, the essays in the book discuss the psychological stages of woman's development, the moon and matriarchal consciousness, Mozart's Magic Flute, the meaning of the earth archetype for modern times, and the fear of the feminine. In Mozart's fantastic world, Neumann saw a true Auseinandersetzung--the conflict and coming-to-terms with each other of the matriarchal and the patriarchal worlds. Developing such a synthesis of the feminine and the masculine in the psychic reality of the individual and of the collective was, he argued, one of the fundamental, future-oriented tasks of both the society and the individual.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56294430736757,"sku":"9780691034737","price":38.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691034737_69721e12-0a28-4052-b36f-873691bddd67.jpg?v=1786014555"},{"product_id":"9780691270968","title":"Analytical Psychology in Exile – The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann","description":"Two giants of twentieth-century psychology in dialogueC. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann, twenty-eight, had just finished his studies in medicine. The two men struck up a correspondence that would continue until Neumann's death in 1960. A lifelong Zionist, Neumann fled Nazi Germany with his family and settled in Palestine in 1934, where he would become the founding father of analytical psychology in the future state of Israel.   Presented here in English for the first time are letters that provide a rare look at the development of Jung’s psychological theories from the 1930s onward as well as the emerging self-confidence of another towering twentieth-century intellectual who was often described as Jung’s most talented student. Neumann was one of the few correspondence partners of Jung’s who was able to challenge him intellectually and personally. These letters shed light on not only Jung’s political attitude toward Nazi Germany, his alleged anti-Semitism, and his psychological theory of fascism, but also his understanding of Jewish psychology and mysticism. They affirm Neumann’s importance as a leading psychologist of his time and paint a fascinating picture of the psychological impact of immigration on the German Jewish intellectuals who settled in Palestine and helped to create the state of Israel.   Featuring Martin Liebscher’s authoritative introduction and annotations, this volume documents one of the most important intellectual relationships in the history of analytical psychology.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295536656757,"sku":"9780691270968","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691270968_6b6794fe-956b-4aa5-815b-bf4fa74e7813.jpg?v=1786014588"},{"product_id":"9780691163598","title":"The Origins and History of Consciousness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Origins and History of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann was one of C. G. Jung's most creative students and a renowned practitioner of analytical psychology in his own right. In this influential book, Neumann shows how the stages begin and end with the symbol of the Uroboros, the tail-eating serpent. The intermediate stages are projected in the universal myths of the World Creation, Great Mother, Separation of the World Parents, Birth of the Hero, Slaying of the Dragon, Rescue of the Captive, and Transformation and Deification of the Hero. Throughout the sequence, the Hero is the evolving ego consciousness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing a foreword by Jung, this Princeton Classics edition introduces a new generation of readers to this eloquent and enduring work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56311848010101,"sku":"9780691163598","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691163598_a73ec4e9-d184-4c9a-9be7-648fa8bfb324.jpg?v=1786032960"},{"product_id":"9780691279169","title":"Creative Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn essential exploration of creativity by one of the twentieth century’s foremost Jungian psychologists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough said to be C. G. Jung’s favorite and most innovative student, Erich Neumann provoked controversy within the Jungian community. While his work presents a wealth of material illustrating Jung’s ideas, his interpretations go far beyond those ideas to open important avenues between analytical psychology and the study of literature and art. This landmark book brings together five of his most illuminating essays on creativity. Written over a span of years about diverse personalities—Franz Kafka, Marc Chagall, Georg Trakl, Sigmund Freud, and Jung—these essays share a common theme: the relationship between the personal and the transpersonal, the ego and the archetype. An engaging analysis of the psyche as the source of religious and artistic creation, \u003ci\u003eCreative Man\u003c\/i\u003e asks how creativity can best be fostered, how the feminine stimulates creativity in men as well as women, and how artistic creation, but also the history of human consciousness more broadly, reflect this ongoing creative movement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368122036597,"sku":"9780691279169","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691279169_1bdf9737-a656-40ae-b709-1eb377c9df47.jpg?v=1786014682"},{"product_id":"9780691279053","title":"The Great Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark account of the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this book, renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how the archetype of the Great Mother has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory. He shows how the feminine has been represented as goddess, monster, gate, pillar, tree, moon, sun, vessel, and every animal from snakes to birds. Neumann discerns a universal experience of the maternal as both nurturing and fearsome, an experience rooted in the dialectical relation of growing consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the unconscious and the unknown, symbolized by the Great Mother. With a foreword by Martin Liebscher, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Mother\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and enduring work by one of the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368122003829,"sku":"9780691279053","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691279053_1e1506ae-3cb9-48cd-bd5a-b1cf7f968623.jpg?v=1786014680"},{"product_id":"9780691279084","title":"The Origins and History of Consciousness","description":"A landmark account of the evolution of consciousness by one of the twentieth century’s leading Jungian psychologistsThis book draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole. Erich Neumann, one of C. G. 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With a foreword by Jung, The Origins and History of Consciousness is an eloquent and enduring meditation on myth and the human psyche.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56368122429813,"sku":"9780691279084","price":28.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691279084_d7f2c041-c2c1-4c72-ab30-291ac487fb45.jpg?v=1786014681"},{"product_id":"9780691279190","title":"The Place of Creation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSix essays on creativity from one of the twentieth century’s foremost Jungian psychologists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErich Neumann, whom C. G. Jung regarded as one of his most gifted students, devoted much of his later writing to the theme of creativity. This landmark book brings together six of Neumann's groundbreaking essays on the subject. He finds his examples not only in the work of writers and artists—William Blake, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Georg Trakl—but also in that of physicists, biologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers. Confronting the problem of portraying men and women as creative beings, Neumann expands the concepts of Jungian psychology with a more comprehensive definition of the archetype as well as a new concept—unitary reality. \u003ci\u003eThe Place of Creation\u003c\/i\u003e shows how our future as a species depends on whether we can experience ourselves as truly creative, in touch with our own being and that of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":56368122593653,"sku":"9780691279190","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57685796815221,"sku":"9780691279183","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780691279190.jpg?v=1792598987"},{"product_id":"9780691279213","title":"The Fear of the Feminine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn insightful exploration of the unconscious fear of the feminine by a pioneering Jungian psychologist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErich Neumann was one of C. 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