WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES (Clarissa Pinkola Estés)

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Wolves have been painted with a black brush in fairy tales and still frighten defenseless girls today. But they were not always seen as terrifying and violent creatures. In ancient Greece and Rome, the animal was the consort of Artemis, the huntress, and lovingly nursed heroes. Jungian analyst Clarissa Pinkola Estés believes that women in our society have been treated in a similar way. By investigating the crushing of the instinctive female nature, Clarissa discovered the key to the modern woman's feeling of powerlessness. Her book, Women Who Run with the Wolves, was on the bestseller list in the United States for a year.

Covering 19 myths, legends and fairy tales, such as the story of the ugly duckling and Bluebeard, Estés shows how women's instinctive nature was domesticated over time, in a process that punished all those who rebelled. According to the analyst, like virgin forests and wild animals, instincts were devastated and natural feminine cycles were forcibly transformed into artificial rhythms to please others. But their vital energy, according to her, can be restored through "psycho-archaeological" excavations in the ruins of the underworld. Until the point where, emerging from the thick layers of cultural conditioning, the courageous wolf that lives in every woman appears. A classic in studies on the sacred feminine and feminism, the book is the first in a series of Rocco longsellers to be published with a new graphic design and hardcover.