1st Edition
Men, Women and Relationships - A Post-Jungian Approach Gender Electrics and Magic Beans
By Phil Goss
Copyright 2011
272 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
272 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships. Phil Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the deep tension in western culture between the transcendent masculine and the immanent feminine.... Read more
Introduction. Jack and the Beanstalk: Magic Beans and Angry Mothers. Gender Illusion, Gendered Reality. Gender Electrics: Eros, Thanatos and the Currents of the Past. Thanima. Thanimus. Climbing the Beanstalk: Personal and Collective Adolescence. Walking on Clouds: Male and Female Territories. Bringing the Giants Down from the Sky: Men, Women, Relationships and the Problem of Home.
Biography
Phil Goss is a Jungian Analyst and member of the Association of Jungian Analysts and the I.A.A.P. He is also Senior Lecturer for Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Central Lancashire.
