Author | Erich Neumann |
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Original title | Die große Mutter. Der Archetyp des grossen Weiblichen |
Translator | Ralph Manheim |
Language | German |
Subject | Mother goddesses, Feminine archetypes |
Publisher | Bollingen Foundation, Princeton University Press |
Publication date | 1955, 2d ed. 1963, 2015 |
Publication place | Switzerland, Israel |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 379 text + 185 plates |
ISBN | 0-691-01780-8 (paperback) 0-691-09742-9 (hardcover) |
LC Class | 55-10026 |
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (‹See Tfd›German: Die große Mutter. Der Archetyp des grossen Weiblichen) is a book discussing mother goddesses by the psychologist Erich Neumann. The dedication reads, "To C. G. Jung friend and master in his eightieth year". Although Neumann completed the German manuscript in Israel in 1951,[2] The Great Mother was first published in English in 1955.[3] The work has been seen as an enduring contribution to the literature inspired by Jung, and was the first to analyze an archetype with such depth and scope.