Snag The Moon And The Virgin: Reflections On The Archetypal Feminine Constructed By Nor Hall Accessible In Publication

This is a classic, Its republication by the Women's Press established it as a key work of Second Wave Feminism, It is also a detailed and imaginative study of poetic creativity, Nor Hall binds Jungian thought and literature in a binding spell as she examines the mythological structures of the Archetypal Feminine.
She explains ideas with great sensitivity, pulling the reader into the mothering roots of language, Most importantly, she points out how culture uses terms carelessly, A stereotype is the opposite of an archetype, One fixes, like a printer's metal letter, The other expands and opens life to deep flows within

the world, Archetype has become confused with typical, a firm example, It is anything but. Nor Hall sees the Feminine as a circle, Psyche's story, circling around poles of existence, The strength of this book is its writing it lives what it claims it expands and breaks down strictures, A stunning book. Transformative reading. Nor Hall writes with a strikingly original perspective on women in myth and literature, examining and giving new meaning to the underlying archetypes.
She explores such principles as androgyny and virginity, freeing them from the limited social context in which we have trapped them, and argues the necessity of feminine rituals in history.
In her search for the original forms of the feminine, Hall guides us on a journey though myths and symbols, confronting them not in the rational mode of the language itself, but on the deeper level of the unconscious life.
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