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Women who run with the wolves: myths and stories of the wild woman archetype
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From the Book - Hardback - 1st mass market pbk. ed.
The Bounty of Wild Woman --
Foreword --
Introduction: Singing Over the Bones --
The Stories --
1. The Howl: Resurrection of the Wild Woman --
La Loba, The Wolf Woman --
The Four Rabbinim --
2. Stalking the Intruder: the Beginning Initiation --
Bluebeard --
The Natural Predator of the Psyche --
Naive Women as Prey --
The Key to Knowing: The Importance of Snuffling --
The Animal Groom --
Blood Scent --
Backtracking and Looping --
Giving the Cry --
The Sin-eaters --
The Dark Man in Women's Dreams --
3. Nosing Out the Facts: the Retrieval of Intuition as Initiation --
The Doll in Her Pocket: Vasalisa the Wise --
Task 1. Allowing the Too-Good Mother to Die --
Task 2. Exposing the Crude Shadow --
Task 3. Navigating in the Dark --
Task 4. Facing the Wild Hag --
Task 5. Serving the Non-Rational --
Task 6. Separating This from That --
Task 7. Asking the Mysteries --
Task 8. Standing on All Fours --
Task 9. Recasting the Shadow --
4. The Mate: Union with the Other --
Hymn for the Wild Man: Manawee --
The Dual Nature of Women --
The Power of Two --
The Power of Name --
The Tenacious Dog Nature --
Creeping Seductive Appetite --
Achieving Fierceness --
The Interior Woman --
5. Hunting: When the Heart is a Lonely Hunter --
Skeleton Woman: Facing the Life/Death/Life Nature of Love --
Death in the House of Love --
The First Phases of Love --
The Accidental Finding of Treasure --
The Chase and the Hiding --
Untangling the Skeleton --
The Sleep of Trust --
Giving the Tear --
The Later Phases of Love --
Heart as Drum and Singing Up --
The Dance of Body and Soul --
6. Finding One's Pack: Belonging as Blessing --
The Ugly Duckling --
Exile of the Unmatched Child --
Kinds of Mothers --
The Ambivalent Mother --
The Collapsed Mother --
The Child Mother and the Unmothered Mother --
The Strong Mother, The Strong Child --
Bad Company --
Not Looking Right --
Frozen Feeling, Frozen Creativity --
The Passing Stranger --
Exile as Boon --
The Uncombed Cats and Cross-Eyed Hens of the World --
Remembrance and Continuance No Matter What --
Love for the Soul --
The Mistaken Zygote --
7. Joyous Body: the Wild Flesh --
Body Talk --
The Body in Fairy Tales --
The Power of the Haunches --
La Mariposa, Butterfly Woman --
8. Self-Preservation: Identifying Leg Traps, Cages, and Poisoned Batt --
The Feral Woman --
The Red Shoes --
Brutal Loss in Fairy Tales --
The Handmade Red Shoes --
The Traps --
Trap #1. The Gilded Carriage, the Devalued Life --
Trap #2. The Dry Old Woman, the Senescent Force --
Trap #3. Burning the Treasure, Hambre del Alma, Soul Famine --
Trap #4. Injury to Basic Instinct, the Consequence of Capture --
Trap #5. Trying to Sneak a Secret Life, Split in Two --
Trap #6. Cringing Before the Collective, Shadow Rebellion --
Trap #7. Faking It, Trying to be Good, Normalizing the Abnormal --
Trap #8. Dancing Out of Control, Obsession and Addiction --
Addiction --
At the Executioner's House --
Trying to Take Shoes Off, Too Late --
Returning to Life Made by Hand, Healing Injured Instincts --
9. Homing: Returning to Oneself --
Sealskin, Soulskin --
Loss of Sense of Soul as Initiation --
Losing One's Pelt --
The Lonely Man --
The Spirit Child --
Drying Out and Crippling --
Hearing the Old One's Call --
Staying Overlong --
Cutting Loose, Diving In --
The Medial Woman: Breathing Under Water --
Surfacing --
The Practice of Intentional Solitude --
Women's Innate Ecology --
10. Clear Water: Nourishing the Creative Life --
La Llorona --
The Pollution of the Wild Soul --
Poison in the River --
Fire on the River --
The Man on the River --
Taking Back the River --
Focus and the Fantasy Mill --
The Little Match Girl --
Staving Off Creative Fantasy --
Renewing the Creative Fire --
The Three Gold Hairs --
11. Heat: Retrieving a Sacred Sexuality --
The Dirty Goddesses --
Baubo: The Belly Goddess --
Coyote Dick --
A Trip to Rwanda --
12. Marking Territory: the Boundaries of Rage and Forgiveness --
The Crescent Moon Bear --
Rage as Teacher --
Bringing in the Healer: Climbing the Mountain --
The Spirit Bear --
The Transformative Fire and Right Action --
Righteous Rage --
The Withered Trees --
Descansos --
Injured Instinct and Rage --
Collective Rage --
Stuck in Old Rage --
Four Stages of Forgiveness --
13. Battle Scars: Membership in the Scar Clan --
Secrets as Slayers --
The Dead Zone --
The Woman With Hair of Gold --
The Scapecoat --
14. La Selva Subterranea: Initiation in the Underground Forest --
The Handless Maiden --
Stage 1. The Bargain Without Knowing --
Stage 2. The Dismemberment --
Stage 3. The Wandering --
Stage 4. Finding Love in the Underworld --
Stage 5. The Harrowing of the Soul --
Stage 6. The Realm of the Wild Woman --
Stage 7. The Wild Bride and Bridegroom --
15. Shadowing: Canto Hondo, the Deep Song --
16. The Wolf's Eyelash --
Afterword: Story as Medicine --
Addendum --
Notes --
Education of a Young Wolf: A Bibliography --
Acknowledgments --
Index.
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Estés, Clarissa Pinkola Author
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9780345396815
9780345377449
9780345409874
9781604073973
9780345377449
9780345409874
9781604073973
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