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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
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