archetype (psychology)

Psychologists explore the appeal of superheroes.

In What It Is Like to Go to War, Marlantes takes a deeply personal and candid look at the experience and ordeal of combat, critically examining how we might better prepare our young soldiers for war. War is as old as humankind, but in the past, warriors were prepared for battle by ritual, religion, and literature?which also helped bring them home. In a compelling narrative, Marlantes weaves riveting accounts of his combat experiences with thoughtful analysis, self-examination, and his readings?from Homer to the Mahabharata to Jung. He makes it clear just how poorly prepared our nineteen-year-old warriors?mainly men but increasingly women?are for the psychological and spiritual aspects of their journey.

Within every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr. Est?s unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine.

A discussion of the research conducted by the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago on the symbolism of the king, the warrior, the magician, and the lover on the masculine psyche.

Uses multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories that help women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype.