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Women who run with the wolves : myths and stories of the wild woman archetype / Clarissa Pinkola Estés.

GR470 .E88 1997

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Format:: Book
Author/Creator:: Estés, Clarissa Pinkola, author.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Wild women--Folklore.; Wild women.; Women--Folklore.; Women.; Women--Psychology.; Archetype (Psychology).
Genre:: Folklore.
Physical Description:: xvii, 584 pages ; 18 cm
Edition:: First mass market paperback edition.
Other Title:: Myths and stories of the wild woman archetype
Place of Publication:: New York : Ballantine Books, 1997.
Summary:: Using stories and myths, Dr. Estés discusses the nature of the wild woman archetype, how that instinctual and vital feminine self is muffled or sublimated by society, and how to free it.; "Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul." -- Publisher's description
Contents:: The Bounty of Wild Woman; Foreword; Introduction: Singing Over the Bones; The Stories; 1. The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman; La Loba, The Wolf Woman; The Four Rabbinim; 2. Stalking the Intruder: the Beginning Initiation; Bluebeard; The Natural Predator of the Psyche; Naive Women as Prey; The Key to Knowing: The Importance of Snuffling; The Animal Groom; Blood Scent; Backtracking and Looping; Giving the Cry; The Sin-eaters; The Dark Man in Women's Dreams; 3. Nosing Out the Facts: the Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation; The Doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise; Task 1. Allowing the Too-Good Mother to Die; Task 2. Exposing the Crude Shadow; Task 3. Navigating in the Dark; Task 4. Facing the Wild Hag; Task 5. Serving the Non-Rational; Task 6. Separating This from That; Task 7. Asking the Mysteries; Task 8. Standing on All Fours; Task 9. Recasting the Shadow; 4. The Mate: Union with the Other; Hymn for the Wild Man: Manawee; The Dual Nature of Women; The Power of Two; The Power of Name; The Tenacious Dog Nature; Creeping Seductive Appetite; Achieving Fierceness; The Interior Woman; 5. Hunting: When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter; Skeleton Woman: Facing the Life/Death/Life Nature of Love; Death in the House of Love; The First Phases of Love; The Accidental Finding of Treasure; The Chase and the Hiding; Untangling the Skeleton; The Sleep of Trust; Giving the Tear; The Later Phases of Love; Heart as Drum and Singing Up; The Dance of Body and Soul; 6. Finding One's Pack: Belonging as Blessing; The Ugly Duckling; Exile of the Unmatched Child; Kinds of Mothers; The Ambivalent Mother; The Collapsed Mother; The Child Mother or the Unmothered Mother; The Strong Mother, The Strong Child; Bad Company; Not Looking Right; Frozen Feeling, Frozen Creativity; The Passing Stranger; Exile as Boon; The Uncombed Cats and Cross-Eyed Hens of the World; Remembrance and Continuance No Matter What; Love for the Soul; The Mistaken Zygote; 7. Joyous Body: the Wild Flesh; Body Talk; The Body in Fairy Tales; The Power of the Haunches; La Mariposa, Butterfly Woman; 8. Self-Preservation: Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Batt; The Feral Woman; The Red Shoes; Brutal Loss in Fairy Tales; The Handmade Red Shoes; The Traps; Trap #1. The Gilded Carriage, the Devalued Life; Trap #2. The Dry Old Woman, the Senescent Force; Trap #3. Burning the Treasure, Hambre del Alma, Soul Famine; Trap #4. Injury to Basic Instinct, the Consequence of Capture; Trap #5. Trying to Sneak a Secret Life, Split in Two; Trap #6. Cringing Before the Collective, Shadow Rebellion; Trap #7. Faking It, Trying to be Good, Normalizing the Abnormal; Trap #8. Dancing Out of Control, Obsession and Addiction; At the Executioner's House; Trying to Take Shoes Off, Too Late; Returning to Life Made by Hand, Healing Injured Instincts; 9. Homing: Returning to Oneself; Sealskin, Soulskin; Loss of Sense of Soul as Initiation; Losing One's Pelt; The Lonely Man; The Spirit Child; Drying Out and Crippling; Hearing the Old One's Call; Staying Overlong; Cutting Loose, Diving In; The Medial Woman: Breathing Under Water; Surfacing; The Practice of Intentional Solitude; Women's Innate Ecology; 10. Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life; La Llorona; The Pollution of the Wild Soul; Poison in the River; Fire on the River; The Man on the River; Taking Back the River; Focus and the Fantasy Mill; The Little Match Girl; Staving Off Creative Fantasy; Renewing the Creative Fire; The Three Gold Hairs; 11. Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality; The Dirty Goddesses; Baubo: The Belly Goddess; Coyote Dick; A Trip to Rwanda; 12. Marking Territory: the Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness; The Crescent Moon Bear; Rage as Teacher; Bringing in the Healer: Climbing the Mountain; The Spirit Bear; The Transformative Fire and Right Action; Righteous Rage; The Withered Trees; Descansos; Injured Instinct and Rage; Collective Rage; Stuck in Old Rage; Four Stages of Forgiveness; 13. Battle Scars: Membership in the Scar Clan; Secrets as Slayers; The Dead Zone; The Woman With Hair of Gold; The Scapecoat; 14. La Selva Subterránea: Initiation in the Underground Forest; The Handless Maiden; Stage 1. The Bargain Without Knowing; Stage 2. The Dismemberment; Stage 3. The Wandering; Stage 4. Finding Love in the Underworld; Stage 5. The Harrowing of the Soul; Stage 6. The Realm of the Wild Woman; Stage 7. The Wild Bride and Bridegroom; 15. Shadowing: Canto Hondo, the Deep Song; 16. The Wolf's Eyelash; Afterword: Story as Medicine; Addendum; Notes; Education of a Young Wolf: A Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index.
Notes:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 518-533) and index.
ISBN:: 0345409876; 9780345409874
OCLC:: 36215629
Publisher Number:: 99993790895

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