King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Author: Robert Moore Doug Gillette | Language: English | ISBN:
B00EXOFDXI | Format: EPUB
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Description
The bestselling, widely heralded, jungian introduction to the psychological foundation of a mature, authentic, and revitalized masculinity.
- File Size: 379 KB
- Print Length: 192 pages
- Publisher: HarperOne; Reprint edition (October 1, 2013)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00EXOFDXI
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #35,969 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I follow The Art of Manliness blog closely, and when it recently inaugurated a series on the "mature masculine archetypes" as described by Carl Jung and the authors of this book, I immediately ordered a copy. While I don't subscribe to much of it, I find Jungian ideas intriguing, especially the ideas of archetypes and temperaments and how the various kinds of both interact. The writer at The Art of Manliness pointed out that some of the ideas in this book are "New-Agey" and not for him, but he still benefited from reading it. Thus advised, I began reading my copy as soon as it arrived.
The central argument of this engaging and readable book is that men have been unjustly denigrated by a society suspicious of masculinity, and that society has therefore been increasingly drained of "the mature masculine," the qualities inherent in fully-developed men. This condition is partly the fault of overzealous feminists, but also partly the fault of men who have failed to mature and are trapped in "boy psychology" or "the immature masculine." In short, these perpetual boys have given men a bad name. But another problem is the lack of rites of passage whereby the immature masculine dies and is reborn as the mature, bringing a male from boyhood to manhood. Men need these rites of passage in order to mature, and the modern world has failed to deliver. I sympathize greatly with all of this.
The most interesting part of the book to me was that detailing the four archetypes that make up the masculine psyche. They are the four men of the title: the King, the archetype of wisdom and rulership; the Warrior, the archetype of aggression and vigor; the Magician, the archetype of knowledge and technical mastery; and the Lover, the archetype of all kinds of connectedness, romantic or otherwise.
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