Jungian Exploration of the Puella Archetype

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