

THE PHENOMENON OF REVERSAL AND THE DYNAMIC OF THE ARCHETYPE, pg. THE FUNCTIONAL SPHERES OF THE FEMININE, pg.

THE CENTRAL SYMBOLISM OF THE FEMININE, pg. THE ARCHETYPAL FEMININE AND THE GREAT MOTHER, pg. i*FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION, pg. Peterson: Erich Neumann is the most well-regarded student, analyst & distiller of Carl Jung's work.*Frontmatter, pg. Manheim, BoIIingen Series, XLVII, xliv +352 pp., 185 pl., New York.


His works also elucidate the way mythology throughout history reveals aspects of the development of consciousness that are parallel in both the individual and society as a whole. Erich Neumann, The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype, Ralph. However, he is best known for his theory of feminine development, a theory formulated in numerous publications, most notably The Great Mother. His most valuable contribution to psychology was the empirical concept of "centroversion", a synthesis of extra- and introversion. Jung friend and master in his eightieth year'. Der Archetyp des grossen Weiblichen) is a book discussing mother goddesses by the psychologist Erich Neumann. He had a theoretical and philosophical approach to analysis, contrasting with the more clinical concern in England and the United States. The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype ( German: Die groe Mutter. Neumann contributed to the field of developmental psychology and the psychology of consciousness and creativity. He practiced analytical psychology in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death from kidney cancer in 1960. He also lectured frequently in England, France and the Netherlands, and was a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and president of the Israel Association of Analytical Psychologists. For many years, he regularly returned to Zürich, Switzerland to give lectures at the C. In 1934 Neumann and his wife Julia, who had been Zionists since they were teenagers, moved to Tel Aviv. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1927 and then continued to study medicine at the University of Berlin, where he acquired his first degree in medicine in 1933. Neumann was born in Berlin to a Jewish family. The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype is a book discussing mother goddesses by the psychologist Erich Neumann. Neumann examines how the Feminine has been experienced and expressed in many cultures from prehistory to our own time.Īppearing as goddess and demon, gate and pillar, garden and tree, hovering sky and containing vessel, the Feminine is seen as an essential factor in the dialectical relation of individual consciousness, symbolized by the child, to the ungraspable matrix, symbolized by the Great Mother.Įrich Neumann,was a psychologist, philosopher, writer, and student of Carl Jung.
