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Rapture encaged : the suppression of the feminine in Western culture / Ruth Anthony El Saffar.
Van Pelt Library BF175.5.I53 E4 1994
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- El Saffar, Ruth S., 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Individuation (Psychology)--Case studies.
- Individuation (Psychology).
- Women--Psychology--Case studies.
- Women.
- Animus (Psychoanalysis).
- Cruz, Isabela de la, active 17th century.
- Cruz, Isabela de la.
- Women--Psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 168 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
- Summary:
- "Rapture Encaged" is a study in female individuation. Through an analysis of the seventeenth century visionary nun, Isabel de la Cruz, Ruth Anthony El Saffar examines the process of individuation and questions whether, in seeking to achieve this Jungian ideal, women are being asked to adapt to images of the feminine that are constructed by patriarchal culture. "Rapture Encaged" shows that we have no adequate theories of women coming to wholeness and illustrates how Isabel's story is representative both of the suppression of the feminine in modern Western consciousness and of the psyche's compensatory powers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-156) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0415110831
- OCLC:
- 29564426
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