Great mother. Female images and symbols. Neumann E.

“The Great Mother” first published in 1974, becoming the main work of Erich Neumann, the most famous student and employee Karl Gustav Jung. On the basis of an extensive collection of images of various world cultures, he describes the symbolism of a woman in her diverse manifestations: devouring and giving birth to the goddesses of antiquity, threatening and giving the life of the goddess of fate, the goddess as a mistress of plants and animals, female cults of mysteries, the appearance of female wisdom, embodied in Sofia. < /p>

The book laid the foundation of research in cultural studies, psychology, psychoanalysis.