Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Within every woman, there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. For though the gifts of wildish nature belong to us at birth, society's attempt to "civilize" us into rigid roles has muffled the deep, life-giving messages of our own souls. In "Women Who Run With the Wolves," Dr Estes unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairytales and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman, and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

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«En toda mujer hay fuerzas poderosas pendientes de descubrir.» Mujeres que corren con los lobos es un fascinante mosaico de historias que nos ofrece una nueva visión de lo femenino y de sus posibilidades. Dentro de toda mujer alienta una vida secreta, una fuerza ponderosa llena de Buenos instintos, creatividad y sabiduría. Es la Mujer Salvaje, una especie en peligro de extinción debido a los contantes esfuerzos de la sociedad por «civilizar» a las mujeres y constreñirlas a rígidos papeles que anulan su esencia instintiva. En este libro, Clarissa Pinkola Estés revela ricos mitos interculturales, cuentos de hadas e historias (muchas de ellas relativas a su propia familia) para contribuir a que las mujeres recuperen su fuerza y su salud, atributos visionarios de esta esencia instintiva. Mediante los relatos y los comentarios de la autora, examinamos el amor y comprendemos a la Mujer Salvaje. Estés ha creado una psicología femenina en un sentido más verdadero, el que lleva al conocimiento del alma.

In the classic Women Who Run With The Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes tells us about the 'wild woman', the wise and ageless presence in the female psyche that gives women their creativity, energy and power. For centuries, the 'wild woman' has been repressed by a male-orientated value system which trivialises women's emotions. Using a combination of time-honoured stories and contemporary casework, Estes reveals that the 'wild woman' in us is innately healthy, passionate and wise. Thoughtfully written and compelling in its arguments, Women Who Run With The Wolves gives readers a new sense of direction, a self confidence and purpose in their lives.

"Call her Our Lady, La Nuestra Señora, Holy Mother—or one of her thousands of other names," says Dr. Estés. "She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and oceans. Thus she comes to us in billions of images, but at her center, she is the Great Immaculate Heart." With Untie the Strong Woman, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés invites us to reconnect with "the fierce and loving Blessed Mother who is friendly, but never tame—she who flies to our aid when the road is long and our hearts are broken, ever ready to rekindle the inner fire of our creative souls." In her first book in more than a decade, Dr. Estés illuminates Our Lady through blessings, images, and narrative, including: * Stories of connecting with the Blessed Mother, including "Meeting the Lady in Red" and "Untie the Strong Woman"; * Blessed Mother's many images from around the world, including "Litany of The Mother Road: A Chant of Her Incandescent Names", "A Man Named Mary", and "The Marys of Mother Africa"; * The wild side of her love, including "Massacre of the Dreamers", "The Maiz Mother", "Holy Card of Swords Through the Heart", and "Guadalupe is a Girl Gang Leader in Heaven". "The Blessed Mother is often 'Friend to the friendless one' and Mother to all—yet too many of us have been estranged from her for far too long." Untie the Strong Woman opens a channel to this sacred and nurturing force—"breaking through walls that have held us back from her presence, and instead, inviting us to shelter under her starry green mantle."

Clarissa Pinkola Estés, psicanalista junghiana nonché maestra indiscussa nella ricerca della felicità per milioni di donne, ripropone in una versione ampliata, aggiornata e ricca di approfondimenti l'intramontabile capolavoro di arte, poesia, psicologia e spiritualità che, dagli anni Novanta, continua ad affascinare e influenzare intere generazioni. La Donna Selvaggia, intesa come forza psichica potente, istintuale e creatrice, lupa ferina e al contempo materna, ma soffocata da paure, insicurezze e stereotipi è la straordinaria intuizione che ha fondato una psicanalisi del femminile. E ha cambiato la vita di moltissime persone. Non meno originale è il metodo utilizzato dalla studiosa che, attraverso un lavoro di ricerca ventennale, ha attinto alle fiabe e ai miti presenti nelle più diverse tradizioni culturali, per aiutare il lettore a scoprire chi è veramente, a liberarsi dalle catene di un'esistenza non conforme ai bisogni più autentici e a "correre" con il proprio Sé. Barbablù, La Piccola Fiammiferaia, Vassilissa, Il Brutto Anatroccolo... Fiabe udite durante l'infanzia e trasformate, in questo testo unico e ora ancora più chiaro e completo, in magiche suggestioni per crescere interiormente.