The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (Bollingen Series)

Author(s): Erich Neumann

Year: 1991

ISBN: 0691097429,9780691097428

Description:

Loving or nurturing or hostile and devouring, The Great Mother is explored as a primordial image of the human psyche in this landmark book by the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann. Here he examines how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods since prehistory drawing on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies.Through a wealth of descriptive passages and reproductions of artistic works ranging from Paleolithic stone carvings to the sculptures of Epstein and Moore, Neumann shows how the feminine has been represented: as goddess, monster, gate, pillar, tree, moon, sun, vessel, and every animal from snake to bird. In studying this array of both static and transformative images, Neumann discerns a universal experience of the Maternal as a dual source of life support and fear: 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.

 

The Origins and History of Consciousness

Author(s): Erich Neumann, C. G. Jung

Series: Maresfield Library

Publisher: Karnac Books, Year: 1986

ISBN: 0946439729,9780946439720

Description:

The Origins and History of Consciousness is an important and wide-ranging interpretation of the relations between psychology and mythology. Erich Neumann undertakes to show that the individual consciousness passes through the same archetypal stages of development that marked the history of human consciousness as a whole. He draws upon the full range of world myth in the illustration of his thesis, and his account makes unexpectedly fresh and lively reading in a field not always notable for these qualities. Neumann ends the work with a trenchant commentary on contemporary society.

 

The Child: Structure and Dynamics of the Nascent Personality

Author(s): Erich Neumann, R. Manheim

Series: Maresfield Library

Publisher: Karnac Books, Year: 1988

ISBN: 0946439427,9780946439423

Description:

The Child is an examination of the structure and dynamics of the earliest developments of ego and individuality. In it we progress from the primal relationship of a child and mother through to the emergence of the ego-Self constellation, via the child's relationship to its own body, its Self, the Thou and being-in-the-world. We move from the matriarchate to the patriarchate; from "participation mystique" to the "standpoint of the Self around which the ego revolves as around the sun".

 

Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann

Author(s): C. G. Jung, Erich Neumann, Martin Liebscher, Heather McCartney

Series: Philemon Foundation Series

Publisher: Princeton University Press, Year: 2015

ISBN: 069116617X,9780691166179

Description:

C. 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-Semiti*, and his psychological theory of fasci*, but also his understanding of Jewish psychology and mystici*. 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.

 

Art and the Creative Unconscious: Four Essays

 

Author(s): Erich Neumann

Series: Bollingen Series LXI

Publisher: Pantheon Books, Year: 1959

 

 

Erich Neumann: Theorist of the Great Mother

Author(s): Camille Paglia

Year: 2006

 

The Origins And History Of Consciousness

 

Author(s): Neumann, Erich

Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Year: 2015

ISBN: 1136302085, 9781136302084

Description:

The Origins and History of Consciousness 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 Jungs 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

 

Life and Work of Erich Neumann: On the Side of the Inner Voice

Author(s): Angelica Löwe

Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2020

ISBN: 9780815382355

Description:

Life and Work of Erich Neumann: On the Side of the Inner Voice is the first book to discuss Erich Neumann’s life, work and relationship with C.G. Jung. Neumann (1905–1960) is considered Jung’s most important student, and in this deeply personal and unique volume, Angelica Löwe casts Neumann's comprehensive work in a completely new light.

Based on conversations with Neumann’s children, Rali Loewenthal-Neumann and Professor Micha Neumann, Löwe explores Neumann’s childhood and adolescent years in Part I, including how he met his wife and muse Julie Blumenfeld. In Part II the book traces their life and work in Tel Aviv, where they moved in the early 1930s amid growing anti-Jewish tensions in Hitler’s Germany. Finally, in Part III, Löwe analyses Neumann’s most famous works.

This is the first book-length discussion of the existential questions motivating Neumann’s work, as well as the socio-historical circumstances pertaining to the problem of Jewish identity formation against rising anti-Semiti* in the early 20th century. It will be essential reading for Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as scholars of Jungian and post-Jungian studies and Jewish studies.

 

The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype

Author(s): Erich Neumann, Ralph Manheim

Series: Princeton Classics

Publisher: Princeton University Press, Year: 2015

ISBN: 0691166072,9780691166070

Description:

With a New foreword by Martin Liebscher

This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype 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.

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.