Bøger af Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Using a combination of time-honoured stories and contemporary casework, Estes reveals that the 'wild woman' in us is innately healthy, passionate and wise. Thoughtfully written and compelling in its arguments, Women Who Run With The Wolves gives readers a new sense of direction, a self confidence and purpose in their lives.

Dybt inde i alle kvinder er der et vildt og naturligt væsen, en kraftfuld styrke, fuld af gode instinkter, lidenskabelig kreativitet og tidløs viden. Alt for ofte er vi dog afskåret fra vores indre og vilde natur og dermed også fra vores egen kreativitet. Samfundet har pålagt os at være 'civiliserede', velopdragne og pæne, og det spiller ind i alle hverdagens aspekter: Vi mister evnen til at bryde faste mønstre og begrænsninger, og vi mister den dybe kontakt til vores følelser og intuition. Kvinder som løber med ulve handler om at slippe Vildkvinden fri og om at genfinde sin naturlige medfødte kraft. Clarissa Pinkola Estés er etnolog og jungiansk klinisk psykolog og har i mere end 20 år samlet historier, myter og eventyr fra hele verden. Inspirationen til at genskabe kontakten med den indre Vildkvinde finder forfatteren i en række klassiske eventyr og myter, som hun udlægger og fortolker på vidunderlig og overraskende vis.

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. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has plundered this treasure, and muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. Without Wild Woman, we become over-domesticated, fearful, uncreative, trapped. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller, shows how woman's vitality can be restored through what she calls "psychic archeological digs" into the bins of the female unconscious. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories chosen from over twenty years of research that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype. Dr. Estes collects the bones of many stories, looking for the archetypal motifs that set a woman's inner life into motion. "La Loba" teaches about the transformative function of the psyche. In "Bluebeard", we learn what to do with wounds that will not heal; in "Skeleton Woman", we glimpse the mystical power of relationship and how dead feelings can be revived; "Vasalisa the Wise" brings our lost womanly instincts to the surface again; "The Handless Maiden" recovers the Wild Woman initiation rites; and "The Little Match Girl" warns against the insidious dangers of a life spent in fantasy. In these and other stories, we focus on the many qualities of Wild Woman. We retrieve, examine, love, and understand her, and hold her against our deep psyches as one whois both magic and medicine. In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and lifegiving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

"Como si se tratara de una de esas historias contadas por las madres a sus hijas, Clarissa Pinkola Estâes nos invita a reflexionar sobre los encantos de la mujer sabia, arquetipo misterioso e irresistible, representado simbâolicamente por la figura de la abuela. Desde las matriarcas de los cuentos de hadas de siempre, pasando por las mujeres anâonimas que la autora ha conocido durante su brillante trayectoria como psicoanalista, hasta las mujeres empoderadas de hoy, Pinkola Estâes retrata magistralmente a esas almas maduras tan presentes en todas las tradiciones familiares, ofreciendo unas pâaginas llenas de luz, melodâia y encanto."--Page [4] of cover.