The Goddess

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Mythological Images of the Feminine
"In a series of chapters each focusing on a different goddess or mythical woman, Christine Downing traces her own path of individuation from maiden-daughter to mature woman. A therapist, university professor of religion and former president of the American Academy of Religion, she writes what is essentially an autobiography with an inner focus on
her dreams and phantasies and their meanings to her____She writes in a
direct and intimate way, using to great but effordess effect her deep culture and wide learning." —The Journal of Analytical Psychology
"Downing is a fine teller of the well-shaped story. Her book itself has a certain roundedness, a completeness about it. Beginning with reflections on the goddess and goddesses, evolving through the various stories of her own life, it ends with a brilliant analysis of childhood as the state of being that keeps us imagining." —Southern Humanities Review
"Exciting and important. . . . Highly... Tovább

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Mythological Images of the Feminine
"In a series of chapters each focusing on a different goddess or mythical woman, Christine Downing traces her own path of individuation from maiden-daughter to mature woman. A therapist, university professor of religion and former president of the American Academy of Religion, she writes what is essentially an autobiography with an inner focus on
her dreams and phantasies and their meanings to her____She writes in a
direct and intimate way, using to great but effordess effect her deep culture and wide learning." —The Journal of Analytical Psychology
"Downing is a fine teller of the well-shaped story. Her book itself has a certain roundedness, a completeness about it. Beginning with reflections on the goddess and goddesses, evolving through the various stories of her own life, it ends with a brilliant analysis of childhood as the state of being that keeps us imagining." —Southern Humanities Review
"Exciting and important. . . . Highly Recommended."
—Libi-ary Journal
"Most women will enjoy it and learn from it. But men should read it too, especially those who go around all the time saying they don't 'understand' the women in their lives." —The Washington Booii Review
"One of the most appealing features of this book [is] its intensely intimate autobiographical nature. The book is anything but abstract. Downing has mined her own experience, and she shows remarkable courage in sharing her discoveries----The book is a remarkable demonstration of how myth can help us assemble the meaning of experience and of how we can use our experience to enter the meanings of myth."
—Psychological Perspectives
Christine Downing chairs the Department of Religious Studies at San Diego State University and is senior core faculty member at the California School of Professional Psychology. She is the author, with Gordon Clanton, of Face to Face to Face.
ISBN 0-8245-062'.-3
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