The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation / Edition 1

by Marion Woodman

Overview

"The woman who is virgin, one in herself, does what she does not for power or out of the desire to please, but because what she does is true." Here is writing with a thinking heart, blending art, literature, religion and extensive case material. Continues the author's pioneering work on the nature of the feminine in both women and men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780919123205
Publisher:	Inner City Books
Publication date:	01/28/1988
Series:	Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.93(w) x 8.65(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Frog Conjunctions	7
1	Chrysalis: Am I Really?	13
2	"Taking It Like a Man": Abandonment in the Creative Woman	33
	Analyzing Daddy's Little Princess	44
3	The Kore of Matter: Psyche/Soma Awareness	55
	Disembodied	57
	Reclaiming the Body	59
	Integration of Body and Soul	62
	Integrating Body, Dream and Active Imagination	64
4	At the Right Time: The Ritual Journey	73
	Transforming an Eating Disorder	84
	An Unexpected Initiation	90
5	The Dream Sister: Further Thoughts on Addiction	99
	The Closed Virgin	100
	The Soul Sister	110
	Mother as Shadow Sister	118
	The Black Madonna	121
	The Open Virgin	126
	The Conscious Feminine	135
6	Piercing the Heart: Yin, Yang and Jung	143
7	Beloved Enemy: A Modern Initiation	175
	Notes	191
	Index	198