Robert Bly
Paperback | Pages: 264 pages Rating: 4.13 | 188 Users | 19 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine |
| ISBN: | 0805057781 (ISBN13: 9780805057782) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine. Bly and Woodman interpret the archetypal symbols embedded in an ancient Russian story, The Maiden King, a tale woven of an absent father, a possessive stepmother, a false tutor, and a young man over-whelmed by a beautiful maiden. When the young man's weak response to the maiden ss her retreating in anger, he must go on a quest for self-discovery that leads to Baba Yaga, the fierce yet empowering old woman of Russian folk tradition. The male tency toward impotence in the face of feminine magnificence, the female fear of power and abandonment that leads to rage, the need to get beyond oppositional thinking en route to the Divine, these are issues the book addresses with wisdom and lyricism. The true heir to Iron John, The Maiden King may be the intellectual answer to Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus.
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| Title | : | The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine |
| Author | : | Robert Bly |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 264 pages |
| Published | : | October 15th 1999 by Owl Books (first published 1998) |
| Categories | : | Psychology. Nonfiction |
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Ratings: 4.13 From 188 Users | 19 ReviewsAssess Containing Books The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
Unspeakably brilliant!This was great reading as well as great analysis! It tied in a timely folktale -- as it happened from old Russia -- although it could have been from ANY part of the globe! Marion Woodman and Robert Bly, two Jungian analysts gave their deep-rooted points of view. One thing to remember about Jung is that he dealt with DREAMS. In dreams, one is EVERY character. If a seemingly sinister "villain" turns up, the dreamer is the villain as well as the hero/heroine, rescuer, and wise person (sage).In any
Amazingly preceptive interpretation of this Fairy Tale by Woodman. So very helpful and very healing. Helps exquisitely show the deep pain of the masculine and feminine and that struggle we have until these two archetypes come into union and their contents can be brought to light.
So much wisdom in this book and so much that I don't understand...so much mystery...maybe best not trying to understand that.I'm going to trust that what I've got from it in this first read is what I've got the capacity for now and the same the next time and next after that.It was first published in the UK in 1999 and it seems to me that as I read it now in 2013 in so many ways we're no further forward in the reunion of masculine and feminine as we were then, but maybe that's my projected
Interessante discussie tussen twee (archetypische) psychologen over wat nu 'vrouwelijk' of 'mannelijk' is. En dat de held van zijn 'mannelijkheid' moet worden gered. Voor mij interessant vanwege Heldinne's Reis.
Actually, I wish I could split my review in half in the same manner that the book is split in half by the two authors. I would give Bly two stars and Woodman five. Her interpretations of the masculine and feminine energies that we all possess (as explained through the dissemination of a Russian folktale) are fascinating. And her marvelously poetic Jungian language is mesmerizing.
A most excellent exploration of archetypes within a single myth.
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