Men, women and relationships : a post-Jungian approach

Introduction. 1 Jack and the beanstalk: magic beans and angry mothers. 2 Gender illustion, gendered reality. 3 Gender electrics: eros, thanatos and currents from the past. 4 Thanima. 5 Thanimus. 6 Climbing the beanstalk: personal and collective adolescence. 7 Walking on clouds: male and female territories. 8 Bringing the giants down from the sky: men, women, relationships and the problem of home

'...offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships. Phill Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the deep tension in western culture between the transcendent masculine and the immanent feminine.'

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