Note Details
- Stage: seed 🌱
- Type: book
- Topics: psychology, feminism, mythology
Clarissa Pinkola Estes’ collection of myths, fairy tales, and stories exploring the Wild Woman archetype and the instinctual nature of women.
Book Summary
Drawing on multicultural myths, fairy tales, and her own Jungian analysis, Estes argues that women possess a wild, instinctual nature — the Wild Woman — that has been suppressed by civilization.
Notes
- So many of us start in a desert
- Not connected to our families of origin
- Small things grow, but brilliant. Not lush
- Learned to live like that because we were born into families that were like deserts
- They were not able to sustain us and help us flourish
- Mistaken zygote concept