In Search of Women's Passionate Soul: Revealing the Daimon Lover Within

By Caitlín Matthews

Book Overview

The daimon lover (also known as the animus) plays a signifcant part in guiding and shaping women's lives. The inner male, counterpart to the museit is he who appears in male shape in women's dreams,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852309423
• ISBN13: 9781852309428
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

One to go back to

A journey through the female psyche by a woman who knows. One can feel the empathy pour from the words in this book; reading it is a revelation, like having a wise old woman take you by the hand and say "This is why... this is the way." Matthews works her way through the many paths of a woman's life, sorting through the hurtful thoughts and inner criticisms that make up the monsters we all carry around in our minds. Effortlessly she unmasks them, making you wonder how you could ever have been fooled, how you could ever have believed a word they said. She shows us how to reach past the lies to find that which loves us - our daimon as she calls it, though others would perhaps refer to it as the Jungian animus. Once found, this daimon, this creative, passionate part of the female soul, sustains us and gives new meaning to our life. A wonderful, inspiring, moving book that you will read again and again.