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96 reviews for:
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Douglas Gillette, Robert L. Moore
3.81 AVERAGE
96 reviews for:
King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
Douglas Gillette, Robert L. Moore
3.81 AVERAGE
reflective
medium-paced
I had higher hopes for this. Sadly it is mostly waffle and guff.
Yes there are positive elements to masculinity that are often left to the side when toxic masculinity is front and centre in the popular mind. However! This is not the book to dispel that, even if the message is there it's buried under vocabulary vomit and example excretion.
Right idea, poor execution.
Yes there are positive elements to masculinity that are often left to the side when toxic masculinity is front and centre in the popular mind. However! This is not the book to dispel that, even if the message is there it's buried under vocabulary vomit and example excretion.
Right idea, poor execution.
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
Not bad. But I don't like how generally limiting it was, such as limiting the Jungian concept of Self to the King archetype. And I especially don't like how the primary point of reference is Western folktales.
It might have been helpful to White males in the 1990s, condolencing the transition from blue-collar jobs to the white-collar and the pink-collar. While reading through the book, I have been reminded of Fight Club, which is another book that deals with the psychology of same specific social/racial class in the US, and bears the same flaws albeit with a more defeatist attitude.
Being just a guy from Egypt who's lost in his mid-twenties, I could not relate.
2/5, a little less helpful than cringeworthy, but a fun read nonetheless. It's like letting the drunken guy at the bar talk his heart out about his life views.
(If anyone reading this has better recommendations for self-help books, please tell me.)
It might have been helpful to White males in the 1990s, condolencing the transition from blue-collar jobs to the white-collar and the pink-collar. While reading through the book, I have been reminded of Fight Club, which is another book that deals with the psychology of same specific social/racial class in the US, and bears the same flaws albeit with a more defeatist attitude.
Being just a guy from Egypt who's lost in his mid-twenties, I could not relate.
2/5, a little less helpful than cringeworthy, but a fun read nonetheless. It's like letting the drunken guy at the bar talk his heart out about his life views.
(If anyone reading this has better recommendations for self-help books, please tell me.)
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
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adventurous
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
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My research on the archetypal feminine was missing a similar overview of the archetypal masculine. This was an OVERVIEW to be sure. Summarized stuff that could be gone into in far greater detail. But I got what I needed out of it.
A review of the four Jungian Masculine Archetypes, the two negative poles of each, and their respective counterparts in boyhood.
Not since The Way of the Superior Man has a book properly defined the various states of broken masculinity to me so well. I know this is one I'll pick back up time and time again in the future until it's etched firmly into my mind. I found myself firmly identifying with several of the thought patterns and actions of the different shadow Archetypes, and now I have behaviors that I can meditate on.
Recommended.
Not since The Way of the Superior Man has a book properly defined the various states of broken masculinity to me so well. I know this is one I'll pick back up time and time again in the future until it's etched firmly into my mind. I found myself firmly identifying with several of the thought patterns and actions of the different shadow Archetypes, and now I have behaviors that I can meditate on.
Recommended.