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Marion Woodman



Marion Jean Woodman (1928–2018) was a Canadian mythopoetic author, poet, analytical psychologist, and women’s movement figure. Her popular books and lectures on mythical archetypes provided a language to explore the primal, unconscious elements of feminine identity and bring them into consciousness.

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Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

Dancing in the Flames gives us a remarkably rich and deep knowledge of the Dark Goddess.

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Marion Woodman, Elinor Dickson
1997
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove is the real power. It’s the energy that cherishes. The more you work with that energy, the more you will see how people respond naturally to it, and the more you will want to use it.

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The Sacred Prostitute (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts)

"When the Goddess of Love was still honored, the sacred prostitute was virgin in the original sense of the word (one-in-herself), a person of deep integrity whose welcome for the stranger was radiant, self-confident and sensuous.

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Nancy Qualls-Corbett, Marion Woodman (foreword)
1988
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Bone: Dying into Life

In 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Here, in journal form, is the story of her illness, her healing process, and her acceptance of life and death.

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Marion Woodman
2001
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Addiction to Perfection

Through case studies, dreams, and myths, a Jungian analyst explores the hidden causes of compulsion in the lives of men and women. At the root of eating disorders, substance abuse, and other addictive and compulsive behaviors, Woodman sees a hunger for spiritual fulfillment.

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Marion Woodman
1982
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLove brings out your creativity, and helps everyone around you flower. Your children, the people you work with—everyone blooms.

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The Ravaged Bridegroom: Masculinity in Women

Using dreams a guides, this book focuses on evolving masculine and feminine energies within each individual, both striving toward an inner harmony.

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Marion Woodman
1990
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To Be a Woman: The Birth of the Conscious Feminine

Essays by psychologists, feminists, and scholars discuss the changing role of women, the development of conscious femininity, female-initiated divorce, the return to motherhood, and female-centered spirituality

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Connie Zweig (editor), Deena Metzger (contributor), Robert A. Johnson (contributor), Marion Woodman (contributor), Riane Eisler (contributor), Jean Shinoda Bolen (contributor)
1990
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The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine

From Robert Bly, author of the groundbreaking bestseller Iron John, and famed Jungian analyst Marion Woodman comes an interpretation of a primordial folktale that takes the message behind Iron John to its next phase: the reunion of masculine and feminine.

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Robert Bly, Marion Woodman
1998
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt takes great courage to break with one’s past history and stand alone.

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