Translated into more than twenty-five languages, Clarissa Pinkola Estés’s book has been occupying one of the top places in the world book rankings for several years. This book is about the female archetype—but it is truly universal. Replace the concept of “the Original Woman” with “the Original Man,” and you will see that the benefit this book brings to your soul has nothing to do with gender. Inside every woman lives an original, natural creature, full of good instincts, compassionate creativity, and age-old wisdom. But this creature—the Wild Woman—is on the verge of extinction. The “civilizing” influence of society, unfortunately, suppresses in a child everything “wild,” that is, everything natural.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés, who has practiced and taught Jungian psychoanalysis for more than twenty years while studying myths from different cultures, shows how the woman’s primordial Spirit can be revived through “psycho-archeological digs” into the realm of the female unconscious. A healthy, instinctive, clairvoyant, healing archetypal Wild Woman lives a full-blooded life in ancient myths and fairy tales. But she may also reappear in the soul of every woman under the conditions of the modern world.