Women Who Run With the Wolves

Posted on 09 May 2017 by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller shows how women s vitality can be restored through what she calls psychic archeological digs into the ruins of the female unconsious Using multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, Dr Estes helps women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype.Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche Fertile and life giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul. Best Read [ Women Who Run With the Wolves ] Author [ Clarissa Pinkola Estés ] – kino-fada.fr Let me just start with saying that there are two kinds of people who would NOT like this book 1 chauvanistic men pigs hehe , and 2 women who are uptight with their religious and social beliefs and the stepford housewives type.This book is for all women, who struggled through life because of the pressures and pre tailored expectations of their families, socieities, religious leaders, husbands, children, etc, and finally saw the light of the moon and could not fight the urge to howl owwwwwww Let me just start with saying that there are two kinds of people who would NOT like this book 1 chauvanistic men pigs hehe , and 2 women who are uptight with their religious and social beliefs and the stepford housewives type.This book is for all...When I worked at Ballantine Books in the early to mid 1990s, this was by far the most successful book the house had ever published it probably still is I couldn t get over it this piece of shit was a runaway best seller Overblown, overwritten, self important, pseudo intellectual what the hell was to like And to top it off, the author acted like a complete asshole, with personality traits that matched her book to a T Her visits to the office were ludicrous she used to prance around, When I worked at Ballantine Books in the early to mid 1990s, this was by far the most successful book the house had ever published it probably still is I couldn t get over it this piece of shit was a runaway best ...This book saved my life I was seriously struggling with an enormous amount of class related stress, centered around a completely unsuspected attack on my creative potential After a few months of being shredded mentally and creatively by the people I d expected to lean on for support and physically by the demands of moving to a new country, I was at a horrible place, alternating between periods of blind rage and near suicidal depression, and for the first time in my life I was watching my abili This book saved my life I was seriously struggling with an enormous amount of class related stress, centered around a completely unsuspected attack on my creative potential After a few months of being shredded mentally and creatively by the people I d expected to lean on for support and physically by the demands of moving to a new country, I was at a horrible place, alternating between periods of blind rage and near suicidal depression, and for the first time in my life I was watching my ability to create dim and all but vanish I had two weeks to pull together a film shoot with a script that I needed to edit and then direct, I knew no one, I had ...Jungian psychoanalytic theory applied to folktales and fairy tales from around the world Yes Yes.I want to carry copies of this book around and hand them out, proselytorily, to everyone woman I encounter who feels confined, constrained, and soul sick This book has helped me to reconnect with my intuition, reevaluate what it means for me to live authentically, and reimagine what my life can look like when I live it wildly and freely It really has been a gift to me.There is lots of gender esse Jungian psychoanalytic theory applied to folktales and fairy tales from around the world Yes Yes.I want to carry copies of this book around and hand them out, proselytorily, to everyone woman I encounter who feels confined, constrained, and soul sick This book has helped me to reconnect with my intuition, reevaluate what it means for me to live authentically, ...Here s the deal on this book.1 It is all too easy to make fun or roll one s eyes or be actually pretty nasty about it, because it s obviously got a ridiculously embarassing title I personally got the book as a cheerful joke from my dad one Christmas, and I thought to myself, gag me 2 But Once I read it, I realized how smart this book is Eg, I learned the ever useful term piloerection here What this book is is a master key to the pictorial language that our right brain speaks, via dr Here s the deal on this book.1 It is all too easy to make fun or roll one s eyes or be actually pretty nasty about it, because it s obviously got a ridiculously embarassing title I personally got the book as a cheerful joke from my dad one Christmas, and I thought to myself, gag me 2 But Once I read it, I realized how smart this book is Eg, I learned the ever useful term piloerection here What this book is is a master key to the pictorial language that our right brain speaks, via dreams, myths, stories films , particularly when we are in trouble If you are a writer, an artist, a scholar of poetry, fiction, or ancient oral traditions that don t make sense, or even just someo...Yeah yeah, the book may be seen as a cry of independence for all women out there who need to get in touch with their wild side.However, my reservations The author tried to say that women should be who they are, but continually portrayed one single type of women women who had artistic urges, thick thighs and who had always felt like they were born from the wrong parents.So, if you are a skinny archivist who had a decent childhood and no artistic talents, there s something terribly wrong with Yeah yeah, the book may be seen as a cry of independence for all women out there who need to get in touch with their wild s...I hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen to you, and that you will work with these stories water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom Three times in my life this book found its way into my greedy little hands at a time when I needed it most Every woman should own a copy of this book Women Who Run With the Wolves is a collection of short stories fairytales interspersed with commentary by the author It sI hope you will go out and let stories, that is life, happen ...D D PAnother reviewer summed it up this book s cover was misleading I know that authors often have nothing to do with how their books are advertised, and perhaps I should have read the introduction before I bought it or something, but it still isn t fair that I wasted my money on a book chock full of Jungian psychoanalysis when what is advertised and what I expected was a book about the literary and mythological archetype of the wild woman What s worse, th...Her insan n okumas gerekti ini d nd m kitap nsan dedim zira k klerinin, ruhunun derinli inin fark nda olmay p g nl k hayat n yeknesakl nda z n unutma e i ine gelenler i in rehber niteli inde Kad nlardan bahsediyor belki ama i indeki yk lerde insanl a dair yerinde tespitler var Yar n n yeti kinlerini yeti tiren kad na d en devleri, ve kad nlar anlamak isteyenleri i ine ekecek bir girdap Metafor kat lmad m yerler az da olsa var Fakat geneli, yk ler ok keyifliydi Kurtlarl Her insan n okumas gerekti ini d nd m kitap nsan dedim zira k klerinin, ruhunun derinli inin fark nda olmay p g nl k hayat n...

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09 May 2017

Clarissa Pinkola Estés