Goddesses in Everywoman

that cultural standards determined by men rewarded or punished women for adhering to or rejecting stereotyped roles. As a result ...

her, she gains the power that knowledge provides. The “goddesses” are powerful, invisible forces that shape behavior and influen ...

were struggling with various important tasks. One was a graduate student who felt overwhelmed by a term paper, not knowing how s ...

of women toward the end of the 1960s and early 1970s, first at the University of California Medical Center—Langley Porter Psychi ...

and how it was destructive to her. She could see that she needed to confront her husband with his behavior and face the marital ...

course, rather than what she prefers, because she is a good wife who provides good meals (Hera), is motivated by her maternal na ...

fer from some of Jung’s concepts, as well as integrating feminist perspectives with archetypal psychology. Although this book is ...

situation, she is an introverted hearth-keeping Hestia for whom “still waters run deep.” This shifting explains the difficulty t ...

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1. Goddesses as Inner Images A fragile baby girl was put in my friend Ann’s arms, a “blue baby” with a congenital heart defect. ...

by any other nurse when “his” nurse was in the vicinity.^1 Some new mothers experience an immediate attachment to their newborn; ...

goddesses are helpful only when the images fit the woman’s feelings, for archetypes do not really have names. C. G. Jung introdu ...

were classified together in ancient Greece. The other two categories are my designations. Modes of consciousness, favored roles, ...

dess Ceres) was the Goddess of Grain. In her most important myth, her role as mother was emphasized. Persephone (Proserpina in L ...

work, the Theogony, is an account of the origin and descent of the gods.^3 In the beginning, according to Hesiod, there was Chao ...

last one and to punish Cronos for castrating Uranus and swallowing their five children. Her parents told her to go to Crete when ...

encounter and subjugation, of peoples who had mother-based reli- gions, by invaders who had warrior gods and father-based theolo ...

were expropriated and given to a male deity. Rape appeared in myths for the first time, and myths arose in which the male heroes ...

who had done so. Her emotional conviction was so intense that she ignored evidence that the world still existed. The archetype a ...

Three of the remaining four archetypes—Artemis, Athena, and Persephone—were “maiden” goddesses, who belonged to the gen- eration ...