Lost in the land of Oz : the search for identity and community in American life
Material type:
TextSan Francisco Harper and Row c1988Edition: 1st edDescription: xii, 204 p.; bibliog. notes; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 006064768X
- HN90.M6 K65 1988
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The children of Macha/Ch. 1: The abandoned self. The snow queen/Ch. 2: A nation of orphans. The frog princess/Ch. 3: The myth of man-kind. The hunter maiden/Ch. 4: Women--out of the cave, into the desert. A dream in the desert/Ch. 5: Systems as failed parents. The legend of Hiawatha/Ch. 6: Spiritual orphans in search of a god. Pulacchan and Pucha Mama/Ch. 7: Leaving home. Gaia's tale/Conclusion: Getting back to Kansas
'This book is about survivng as a spiritual orphan. The orphan is the metaphor of our deepest, most fundamental reality: the experience of attachment and abandonment, of expectations and deprivation, of loss and failure, and loneliness.'
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