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| Writer | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
| Category | Self Development |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Ballantine Books |
| Publish Date | 1992 |
| Pages | 516 |
| File Size | 2 MB |
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Over time, we have seen the feminine instinctive nature looted, driven back, and overbuilt. For long periods, it has been mismanaged like the wildlife and the wildlands. For several thousand years, as soon as and as often as we turn our backs, it is relegated to the poorest land in the psyche.
Women Who Run with the Wolves PDF – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The spiritual lands of Wild Woman have, throughout history, been plundered or burnt, dens bulldozed, and natural cycles forced into unnatural rhythms to please others. It’s not by accident that the pristine wilderness of our planet disappears as the understanding of our own inner wild natures fades. Women Who Run with the Wolves PDF
It is not so coincidental that wolves and coyotes, bears and wildish women have similar reputations. They all share related instinctual archetypes, and as such, both are erroneously reputed to be ingracious, wholly and innately dangerous, and ravenous.
My life and work as a Jungian psychoanalyst, poet, and cantadora, keeper of the old stories, have taught me that women’s flagging vitality can be restored by extensive “psychic-archeological” digs into the ruins of the female underworld.
Women Who Run with the Wolves PDF – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
By these methods, we can recover the ways of the natural, instinctive psyche, and, through its personification in the Wild Woman archetype, we are able to discern the ways and means of woman’s deepest nature. The modern woman is a blur of activity. The old knowing is long overdue. Women Who Run with the Wolves PDF
The title of this book. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype came from my study of wildlife biology, wolves in particular. The studies of the wolves Canis lupus and Canis rufus are like the history of women, regarding both their spiritedness and their travails.
Healthy wolves and healthy women share certain psychic characteristics: keen sensing, playful spirit, and a heightened capacity for devotion. Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mates, and their pack.
Women Who Run with the Wolves PDF – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
They have been the targets of those who would clean up the wilds as well as the wildish environs of the psyche, extincting the instinctual, and leaving no trace of it behind. The predation of wolves and women by those who misunderstand them is strikingly similar. Women Who Run with the Wolves PDF
So that is where the concept of the Wild Woman archetype first crystallized for me, in the study of wolves. I’ve studied other creatures as well, such as bears, elephants, and the soul-birds—butterflies. The characteristics of each species give abundant metaphoric hints into what is knowable about the feminine instinctual psyche.
The wild nature passed through my spirit twice, once by my birth to a passionate Mexican-Spanish bloodline, and later, through adoption by a family of fiery Hungarians. There, thunder and lightning were my main nutrition. Cornfields creaked and spoke aloud at night. Far up in the north, wolves came to the clearings in moonlight, prancing and praying. We could all drink from the same streams without fear.
Women Who Run with the Wolves PDF