Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés – with Ephemera – SOLD

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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, PhD
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Year: 1992
Binding: Hardcover with Original Dust Jacket
Condition: All 519 pages are secure to the hinge. There is a small ink stain on the text block (see image in gallery area for example). Includes ephemera: a newspaper article review about the book.

Synopsis:

Within every woman, there exists a wild and natural creature—a powerful force filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society’s attempt to “civilize” us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, and trapped.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how a woman’s vitality can be restored through what she calls “psychic archaeological digs” into the ruins of the female unconscious. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estés uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from over twenty years of research that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype.

 

Dr. Estés collects the bones of many stories, looking for the archetypal motifs that set a woman’s inner life into motion. “La Loba” teaches about the transformative function of the psyche. In “Bluebeard,” we learn what to do with wounds that will not heal; in “Skeleton Woman,” we glimpse the mystical power of relationship and how dead feelings can be revived; “Vasalisa the Wise” brings our lost womanly instincts to the surface again; “The Handless Maiden” recovers the Wild Woman initiation rites; and “The Little Match Girl” warns against the insidious dangers of a life spent in fantasy.

In these and other stories, we focus on the many qualities of Wild Woman. We retrieve, examine, love, and understand her, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.

In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

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