The great mother

Author: Erich Neumann

The primordial, archetypal image of the Great Mother is always present in the psyche of man; its expression is found in ritual, in mythology and in the art of antiquity, as well as in dreams, fantasies and creations of contemporary man. On this archetype Neumann bases a very wide-ranging structural analysis, documenting it with a vast material taken from many cultures and different historical periods, and finally accompanying it with an imposing iconographic apparatus (186 plates outside the text and 74 figures).