Full name: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

Authors: Robert Moore, Douglas Gillette Year: 1990 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Psychology, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Self help Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780062506061

The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally distant father are all boys pretending to be men, observe the authors of this liberating guide to self-transformation. Writing within a Jungian framework, they perceive symptoms of "Boycaps per book psychology" all around us--in men's abusive behaviors, passivity and inability to act creatively. To help males become more nurturing and mature, Moore and Gillette identify four archetypes of masculine energies from myth and literature: the Lover, brimming with vitality and sensitivity; the Magician, guider of the processes of inner and outer transformation; the selfless and wise King identified with Adam or primordial man; and the Warrior, whose energies often go awry in destructive activity. Dream analysis, meditation, Jungian "active imagination" and ritual processes are among the tools set forth in a clear, concise map to territories of masculine selfhood. Similar books: The Hero Within by Carol S. Pearson The Fisher King and the Handless Maiden by Robert A. Johnson Iron John by Robert Bly Transformation by Robert A. Johnson Gods in Everyman by Jean Shinoda Bolen The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson The Rational Male by Rollo Tomassi The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm On Becoming a Person by Carl R. Rogers Staring at the Sun by Irvin D. Yalom A Way of Being by Carl R. Rogers Honoring the Self by Nathaniel Branden Boundaries of the Soul by June Singer The Unheard Cry for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl Emotional Alchemy by Tara Bennett-Goleman Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham Maslow Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson She by Robert A. Johnson Awakening the Heroes Within by Carol S. Pearson