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Women who run with the wolves : myths and stories of the wild woman archetype

Est©♭s, Clarissa Pinkola. (Author).

Using stories and myths, Dr. Est©♭s discusses the nature of the wild woman archetype, how that instinctual and vital feminine self is muffled or sublimated by society, and how to free it.

Book  - 1997
398.082 Est
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Wild women > Folklore.
Women > Folklore.
Women > Psychology.
Archetype (Psychology)
  • ISBN: 0345409876
  • ISBN: 9780345409874
  • Physical Description print
    xvii, 584 pages ; 18 cm
  • Edition 1st mass market pbk. ed.
  • Publisher New York : Ballantine Books, 1997.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The Bounty of Wild Woman -- Foreword -- Introduction: Singing Over the Bones -- The Stories -- 1.. The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman -- La Loba, The Wolf Woman -- The Four Rabbinim -- 2.. Stalking the Intruder: the Beginning Initiation -- Bluebeard -- The Natural Predator of the Psyche -- Naive Women as Prey -- The Key to Knowing: The Importance of Snuffling -- The Animal Groom -- Blood Scent -- Backtracking and Looping -- Giving the Cry -- The Sin-eaters -- The Dark Man in Women's Dreams -- 3.. Nosing Out the Facts: the Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation -- The Doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise -- Task 1. Allowing the Too-Good Mother to Die -- Task 2. Exposing the Crude Shadow -- Task 3. Navigating in the Dark -- Task 4. Facing the Wild Hag -- Task 5. Serving the Non-Rational -- Task 6. Separating This from That -- Task 7. Asking the Mysteries -- Task 8. Standing on All Fours -- Task 9. Recasting the Shadow -- 4.. The Mate: Union with the Other -- Hymn for the Wild Man: Manawee -- The Dual Nature of Women -- The Power of Two -- The Power of Name -- The Tenacious Dog Nature -- Creeping Seductive Appetite -- Achieving Fierceness -- The Interior Woman -- 5.. Hunting: When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter -- Skeleton Woman: Facing the Life/Death/Life Nature of Love -- Death in the House of Love -- The First Phases of Love -- The Accidental Finding of Treasure -- The Chase and the Hiding -- Untangling the Skeleton -- The Sleep of Trust -- Giving the Tear -- The Later Phases of Love -- Heart as Drum and Singing Up -- The Dance of Body and Soul -- 6.. Finding One's Pack: Belonging as Blessing -- The Ugly Duckling -- Exile of the Unmatched Child -- Kinds of Mothers -- The Ambivalent Mother -- The Collapsed Mother -- The Child Mother and the Unmothered Mother -- The Strong Mother, The Strong Child -- Bad Company -- Not Looking Right -- Frozen Feeling, Frozen Creativity -- The Passing Stranger -- Exile as Boon -- The Uncombed Cats and Cross-Eyed Hens of the World -- Remembrance and Continuance No Matter What -- Love for the Soul -- The Mistaken Zygote -- 7.. Joyous Body: the Wild Flesh -- Body Talk -- The Body in Fairy Tales -- The Power of the Haunches -- La Mariposa, Butterfly Woman -- 8.. Self-Preservation: Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Batt -- The Feral Woman -- The Red Shoes -- Brutal Loss in Fairy Tales -- The Handmade Red Shoes -- The Traps -- Trap #1. The Gilded Carriage, the Devalued Life -- Trap #2. The Dry Old Woman, the Senescent Force -- Trap #3. Burning the Treasure, Hambre del Alma, Soul Famine -- Trap #4. Injury to Basic Instinct, the Consequence of Capture -- Trap #5. Trying to Sneak a Secret Life, Split in Two -- Trap #6. Cringing Before the Collective, Shadow Rebellion -- Trap #7. Faking It, Trying to be Good, Normalizing the Abnormal -- Trap #8. Dancing Out of Control, Obsession and Addiction -- Addiction -- At the Executioner's House -- Trying to Take Shoes Off, Too Late -- Returning to Life Made by Hand, Healing Injured Instincts -- 9.. Homing: Returning to Oneself -- Sealskin, Soulskin -- Loss of Sense of Soul as Initiation -- Losing One's Pelt -- The Lonely Man -- The Spirit Child -- Drying Out and Crippling -- Hearing the Old One's Call -- Staying Overlong -- Cutting Loose, Diving In -- The Medial Woman: Breathing Under Water -- Surfacing -- The Practice of Intentional Solitude -- Women's Innate Ecology -- 10.. Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life -- La Llorona -- The Pollution of the Wild Soul -- Poison in the River -- Fire on the River -- The Man on the River -- Taking Back the River -- Focus and the Fantasy Mill -- The Little Match Girl -- Staving Off Creative Fantasy -- Renewing the Creative Fire -- The Three Gold Hairs -- 11.. Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality -- The Dirty Goddesses -- Baubo: The Belly Goddess -- Coyote Dick -- A Trip to Rwanda -- 12.. Marking Territory: the Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness -- The Cres.