Women Who Walk With Wolves The Wild Woman Archetype in Myths and Stories - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

An international blockbuster that examines the psyche of a woman is finally in Finnish!

Every woman has a power that is a combination of sensitive instincts, passionate creativity and ageless wisdom. This force is a wild, untamed instinctive being that is a natural part of the healthy female psyche. However, women often suppress this significant part of their inner world for social, cultural or religious reasons. Psychoanalyst, poet and storyteller Clarissa Pinkola Estés wants to help women reconnect with their inner wild woman and benefit from its fearless, healthy and creative qualities.

The wild woman archetype appears in various forms in countless myths, stories and fairy tales of different cultures. Familiar with ethnopsychology, Estés examines the instinctive part of the female psyche through familiar (Bluebeard, The Ugly Duckling) and lesser-known female characters in stories, myths and fairy tales. She shows in a fascinating way how the women in the stories embody the wild woman's untamed and instinctive nature and illustrate its importance for a woman's psychological well-being. The stories with their interpretations offer the reader a way to get closer to the wild woman of the psyche and to deepen self-understanding.