Description
Clarissa Pinkola Estés spends this book arguing that every woman carries an instinctual self she calls the Wild Woman — creative, intuitive, unapologetically herself — and that most of what passes for good behavior in modern life is actually training in suppressing her. She builds the case through myths, fairy tales, and folk stories drawn largely from her own Latina and Hungarian heritage, paired with decades of case work as a Jungian analyst and cantadora, a keeper of story traditions. Since its release it’s become one of the most widely read books on women’s psychology, translated into dozens of languages.
