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A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of readers with a new introduction by the author.
Dr. Bolen introduced these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women could identify, from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite, and explains how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become a better "heroine" in one's own life story.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD, is a psychiatrist, a Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. Her books include Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, and many others. She is a distinguished life fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and was a clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. She lives in Marin County, California.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M. D, is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, and an internationally known author and speaker. She is the author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine, Urgent Message from Mother, Like a Tree, Moving Toward the Millionth Circle, and Artemis, with over a hundred foreign editions. All of her books are in Spanish. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, a past board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award", and the Asssociation for the Study of Women and Mythology's Demeter Award for her lifetime achievement in women's spirituality. She is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She was in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy-Award winning anti-nuclear proliferation film Women--For America, For the World, and the Canadian Film Board's Goddess Remembered. The Millionth Circle Initiative (www.millonthcircle.org)was inspired by her book and led to her involvement at the UN. She is an advocate for a 5th World Conference on Women (www.5wcw.org). The Secretary General and the President of the General Assembly on March 8, 2012, jointly asked for a resolution from the General Assembly which did not happen. Instead, momentum is growing for 5WCW India 2022. Jean's website is www.jeanbolen.com.
Stainless steel doors stand as a symbol of obstacles which make the achievement of a goal more difficult. Such nuisance is an inevitable part of our life, because without problems the success won't be so sweet. These words are written in the book Goddesses in Every Woman that Jude suggests for Bridget, as she has fallen into hard times. And such doors in her current situation are new job and new relationship. Bridget understands that usually at certain times everything goes wrong, but a person has to be brave and search for a way to get out.
This spiral represents a structure of people's lices. To cope with difficult times is like being in a conical shell-shaped spiral and there is a point at each turn that is very painful and difficult. Each turn represents a cluster of troubles. And straight lines are less or more quiet times. This is mentioned in the book, the plot of which is about women and their life, to explain what the life is in a figured example. Therefore females like Jude and Bridget understand the whole thing and become less worried about their troubles as they will sometimes end up.
A classic work of female psychology that uses seven archetypcal goddesses as a way of describing behavior patterns and personality traits is being introduced to the next generation of readers with a new introduction by the author.
Dr. Bolen introduced these patterns in the guise of seven archetypal goddesses, or personality types, with whom all women could identify, from the autonomous Artemis and the cool Athena to the nurturing Demeter and the creative Aphrodite, and explains how to decide which to cultivate and which to overcome, and how to tap the power of these enduring archetypes to become a better "heroine" in one's own life story.
It was during the Fronde, and Jeanne and her friendshad a cult for Condé and Madame de Longueville, theroyal rebels. They taught their parrots at home to repeatlines of Mazarinades, they kept a print of Condé at thebattle of Rocroy in their book of Hours, and had pocketmirrors with his arms emblazoned on the back, while[41]Madame de Longueville simpered at them from miniaturespainted on the top of their powder boxes or thebacks of their tablets. As the nuns, influenced by theclergy, were strong Royalists, and looked upon Condéas a sort of Anti-Christ, the girls had to hide theirenthusiasm.
A few weeks ago, this invitation would have sentMadeleine into an ecstasy of pleasure. To enter thatgreat fantastic door had seemed a thing one only didin dreams. As Jeanne gave her invitation she saw itclearly before her, cut off from the house and the streetand the trees, just itself, a finely embossed shield againstthe sky. It was like one of the woodcuts that she hadseen in a booth of the Fair that year by a semi-barbariancalled Master Albert Dürer. Woodcuts of one carrot,or a king-fisher among the reeds, or, again, a portionof the grassy bank of a high road, shown as a busy littlecommonwealth of bees and grasses, and frail, sturdyflowers, heedless of and unheeded by the restless streamof the high road, stationary and perfect like some obscureisland of the Ægean. The world seen with the eyesof an elf or an insect ... how strange! Then shelooked at Jeanne, and suddenly there flashed beforeher a sequence of little ignoble things she had subconsciouslyregistered against her. She had a provincialaccent and pronounced volontiers, voulentiers; shehad a nasty habit of picking her nose; Madeleine hadoften witnessed her being snubbed by one of the nuns,and then blushing; there was something indecentlybourgeois in the way she turned the pages of abook.
In the meantime she had got to know a grubby,smirking old gentleman who kept a book-shop andfancied himself as a literary critic. He used to procurethe most recent publications of Sercy and Quinet and theother leading Paris publishers, and his shop became afavourite resort of a throng of poetasters and youngmen of would-be fashion who came there to read andcriticise in the manner of the Paris muguets. Hitheralso came Madeleine, and in a little room behind theshop, where she was safe from ogles and insolence, she[50]would devour all the books that pleased and modelledthe taste of the day.
But what Madeleine pored over most of all was thetheory of all these elegant practices, embodied in speciesof guide-books to the polite world, filled with elaboraterules as to the right way of entering a room and ofleaving it, analyses of the grades of deference or ofinsolence that could be expressed by a curtsey, the wordswhich must be used and the words that must not beused, and all the other tiny things which, pieced together,would make the paradigm of an honnête homme or afemme galante. There Madeleine learned that themost heinous crime after that of being a bourgeois,was to belong to the Provinces, and the glory speedilydeparted from the Lyons Précieuses to descend on thoseof Paris. Her own surroundings seemed unbearable,and when she was not storming at the Virgin for havingmade her an obscure provincial, she was pesteringher with prayers to transplant her miraculously to somehigher sphere.
Her favourite of the Port-Royal books was LaFréquente Communion, in which the Père Arnauldbrought to bear on Theology in full force his greatinheritance, the Arnauld legal mind, crushing topowder the treatise of a certain Jesuit priest whomaintained that a Christian can benefit from theEucharist without Penitence.
The problem that lay before her now was to find anobject for this Platonic tenderness. Julie de Rambouillet,as a wife, mother, and passionately attacheddaughter, could scarcely have a wide enough emotionalmargin to fit her for the rôle. After first choosing andthen discarding various other ladies, she settled onMadeleine de Scudéry. Unmarried and beyond the agewhen one is likely to marry (she was over forty), evidentlyof a romantic temperament, very famous, she had everyqualification that Madeleine could wish. Then there[58]was the coincidence of the name, a subject for pleasantthrills. Madeleine soon worked up through her dancesa blazing pseudo flamme. The sixth book of Cyrus,which treats of Mademoiselle de Scudéry herself, underthe name of Sappho, and of her own circle, seemed fullof tender messages for her. 2ff7e9595c
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