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These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-sidedness of patriarchal Western civilization. Neumann recommended a "cultural therapy" that he thought would redress a "fundamental ignorance" about feminine and masculine psychology, and he looked for societal healing to a "matriarchal consciousness" that forms the bridge between the feminine and the creative. Brought together here for the first time, the essays in the book discuss the psychological stages of woman's development, the moon and matriarchal consciousness, Mozart's Magic Flute, the meaning of the earth archetype for modern times, and the fear of the feminine. In Mozart's fantastic world, Neumann saw a true Auseinandersetzung--the conflict and coming-to-terms with each other of the matriarchal and the patriarchal worlds. Developing such a synthesis of the feminine and the masculine in the psychic reality of the individual and of the collective was, he argued, one of the fundamental, future-oriented tasks of both the society and the individual.

Femininity. --- Psychoanalysis. --- Addiction. --- Ambiguity. --- Analytical psychology. --- Angst. --- Anxiety disorder. --- Anxiety. --- Apotheosis. --- Archetype. --- Asceticism. --- Atrophy. --- Authoritarianism. --- Castration. --- Closed circle. --- Cold Heart. --- Consciousness. --- Constriction. --- Contempt. --- Contradiction. --- Countermovement. --- Cowardice. --- Creation myth. --- Cupid and Psyche. --- Dark earth. --- Death drive. --- Delusion. --- Die Frau ohne Schatten. --- Disincentive. --- Dismemberment. --- Distancing (psychology). --- Eroticism. --- Extraversion and introversion. --- Failure cause. --- Good and evil. --- Gossip. --- Great Goddess. --- Greco-Roman mysteries. --- Grief. --- Hostility. --- Humiliation. --- Hypoactive sexual desire disorder. --- Hysteria. --- Impediment (canon law). --- Incest. --- Individuation. --- Inferiority complex. --- Introspection. --- Irony. --- Irreversible process. --- Lament. --- Lethargy. --- Libido. --- Loneliness. --- Maleficent. --- Masculinity. --- Matriarchy. --- Mental disorder. --- Mortal Fear (novel). --- Mother goddess. --- Mourning. --- Mutilation. --- Mythology. --- Narcissistic supply. --- Neurosis. --- Night World. --- Oedipus complex. --- Patriarchy. --- Penis envy. --- Perversion. --- Phobia. --- Policy uncertainty. --- Prejudice. --- Primitive culture. --- Promiscuity. --- Psychoanalytic theory. --- Psychopomp. --- Religious persecution. --- Religious war. --- Renunciation. --- Sadness. --- Scholasticism. --- Seclusion. --- Secrecy (book). --- Secrecy. --- Self-estrangement. --- Sex differences in humans. --- Skepticism. --- Social rejection. --- State of Fear. --- State of nature. --- Superiority (short story). --- Tragedy. --- True self and false self. --- Uncertainty. --- Unity of opposites. --- V. --- Vagina dentata. --- Virginity. --- Vulnerability. --- Woman.