Who are the women who run with wolves?
1) “Estés, a Jungian analyst, believes that a woman’s wholeness depends on her returning to the sources of her repressed instinctual nature. To illustrate the ways of the “wild woman,” the author draws on myths, legends, and fairy tales from a vast and eclectic range of traditions. This collection of stories may well be the most valuable element of the book, which otherwise reads like unedited transcripts of the workshops Estés leads to encourage women to return to their “feral” roots. Each story demonstrates a particular aspect of woman’s experience–relationship, creativity, anger, spirituality, etc. Estés finds evidence in the most diverse tales of the necessity for women to reclaim their wildness. The precise nature of this wildness is difficult to fathom, but, at best, it seems to include a genuine capacity to access feelings and to accept one’s contradictions, while, at worst, it appears to amount to the kind of self-indulgence that prevailed during the “me” generation. ” S
