An Image Darkly Forming: Women and Initiation - Couverture souple

Shorter, Bani

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0710205740 ISBN 13 : 9780710205742

Editeur : Routledge, 1987

Synopsis

154p large paperback with pictorial cover, small creases to cover, plastic covering bubbled slightly along spine edge, edges yellowed, from a Cambridge college library, pages clean and unmarked, very good

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Originally published in 1987, a well-known Jungian analyst, the late Bani Shorter writes here about how women are initiated into becoming themselves. Her book was an important contribution to the field of analytical psychology at the time, as well as to the increasingly popular study of women’s spirituality.

In former times transitions from one stage of life to another were prepared for and marked by ritual initiation; in modern times this necessity is overlooked and women’s natural development is made more difficult as a consequence. Through working in close therapeutic relationships with women, Bani Shorter found that when challenged by crises and transitions in their lives, today’s women instinctively create rituals nevertheless to mark their journey towards maturation, wholeness and meaning. In this process they discover something of who they are and recognise dimensions of themselves which have been previously repressed and undreamed of. The stories unfolded here can be a guide for all women through their own rites of passage.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0710205740
• ISBN 13: 9780710205742
• Reliure: Broché