Full name: The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation

Author: Marion Woodman Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780919123205 0919123201

First quarter of the book: “Oh!!” Folding pages, scribbling notes in the margins, getting really excited that I’ll learn about psychological transformation and the concept of metamorphosis from a Jungian/feminist perspective.Second quarter of the book: “I’m not afraid of smarty-pants densely written works! Yeah!” Getting bored slogging through what has suddenly turned into an academic mire, but soldiering forward in hopes that it will be worth the trouble.Third quarter of book: “Oh….ugh. What the hell.” When shit gets too Jungian, shit can get too magical. The book starts relying on taking as a given a binary view of gender and ideas of “the masculine” and “the feminine” as inherent and opposing “forces” and proceeds to define the shit out of them and apply them to EV-AR-Y-THING. There’s also a heavy emphasis on the troubles of upper middle class, middle-aged white women. Wheee. Eventually the book descends into a complete mess of weirdly sexist crap with some weirdly racist shit about people in India being so exotic and free and then some half-baked dream analysis.Last part of book: “WTF WOODMAN WHAT HAPPENED?!” *skimming while on toilet and eventually tossing on the floor in disgust and disappointment*http://bone-map.tumblr.com/ Similar books: Symbols of Transformation by C. G. Jung Transformation by Robert A. Johnson Boundaries of the Soul by June Singer Identity: Youth and Crisis by Erik H. Erikson Introducing Jung by Maggie Hyde Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson He by Robert A. Johnson Ego and Archetype by Edward F. Edinger Psychological Types by C. G. Jung The Psychology of C. G. Jung by Jolande Jacobi Meeting the Shadow by Connie Zweig Jung's Map of the Soul by Murray Stein Identity and the Life Cycle by Erik H. Erikson The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden by Robert A. Johnson Jung by Anthony Stevens