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The Great Mother

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The Great Mother

An Analysis of the ArchetypeBy Erich NeumannNarrated by Mark Meadows

The Great Mother

Length10h 29m

About this audiobook

This audiobook narrated by Mark Meadows gives an illuminating account of the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche In this book, renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how the archetype of the Great Mother 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. With a foreword by Martin Liebscher, The Great Mother is a profound and enduring work by one of the most brilliant thinkers of the twentieth century.

Audiobook details

GenrePsychology

Length10 hrs 29 mins

Narrated byMark Meadows

FormatAudiobook

Publish dateJan 20, 2026

LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Opening Credit

13Chapter 9 - The Primordial Goddess

2Foreword to the Princeton Classics Edition

14Chapter 10 - The Positive Elementary Character

3Foreword

15Chapter 11 - The Negative Elementary Character

4Preface

16Chapter 11 Continued - The Negative Elementary Character

5PART 1, Chapter 1 - The Structure of the Archetype

17PART 2 B - The Transformative Character

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6Chapter 2 - The Archetypal Feminine and the Great Mother

18Chapter 13 - The Lady of the Plants

7Chapter 3 - The Two Characters of the Feminine

19Chapter 14 - The Lady of the Beasts

8Chapter 4 - The Central Symbolism of the Feminine

20Chapter 15 - Spiritual Transformation

9Chapter 5 - The Transformative Mysteries

21Chapter 15 Continued - Spiritual Transformation

10Chapter 6 - The Functional Spheres of the Feminine

22About the Author

11Chapter 7 - The Phenomenon of Reversal and the Dynamic of the Archetype

23End Credit

12PART 2 A - The Elementary Character

About the author

Erich Neumann

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Series

Bollingen RecollectionsBook 999999 of 1

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