This fascinating new book explores the puella as an archetypal, symbolic and personality
figure reaching into the classical foundations of Jungian analytical psychology,
focusing on the modern conflicts reverberating personally and culturally
to remove the obstacles for accessing our more complete selves.
Puella is youthful, charming and seductive and unfolds the creative, unusual
wisdom of the feminine. Postmodern fluidity presents other realities, rethinking
and reenacting the truth to oneself. If denigrated, psyche is halted from development,
until addressed. The author employs a cross-disciplinary approach and clinical
vignettes from narratives of real people from diverse backgrounds reflecting
Jungian thought and treatment, along with other psychoanalytical perspectives for
the unfolding of puella.
Examining the puella as a key figure in psychological development within a
diverse world, this book will be appealing to Jungian analysts, and also to mental
health professionals of various paradigms interested in Jungian analytical and
philosophical thought.
