Date of Defense
1-1976
Department
English
Abstract
In the fall of 197^i I took a course called "Femininity as a Religious Form." The book we used as a starting point for discussion was Erich Neumann's The Great Mother, one of the few books that treat the subject of goddesses at any length. Neumann is a Jungian scholar of myth hence his analysis is in terms of archetypes and what mythic archetypes reveal about the human psyche. While I found it possible to question some of his jumps from myth to individual personality, I was fascinated by the categories he created for the myriad goddesses of world religions; in fact it was exciting to me merely to find an extensive investigation of the subject.
Recommended Citation
Krier, Theresa, "The Sophia Godess Motif in the Western Tradition" (1976). Honors Theses. 823.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/823
Access Setting
Honors Thesis-Campus Only