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THE FEMALE SELF AS PRESENTED BY CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTÉS IN WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES. THE STORIES OF FEMALE INITIATION, INTUITION AND INSTINCTS
 
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Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa im. Papieża Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej, Zakład Neofilologii
 
 
Publication date: 2019-07-19
 
 
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Marta Popławska   

Marta Popławska, Państwowa Szkoła Wyższa im. Papieża Jana Pawła II w Białej Podlaskiej, Zakład Neofilologii, ul. Sidorska 102, 21-500 Biała Podlaska, e-mail: m.poplawska@dydaktyka.pswbp.pl, tel.: 83 344 99 00
 
 
Rozprawy Społeczne/Social Dissertations 2018;12(3):14-19
 
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In her work entitled Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estés examines myths, tales and legends of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds to elicit the wild woman archetype. Estés’s interpretations seem to depict the universalities of the female self appearing in different forms in many cultures. The following paper focuses on three essential elements of the female self, namely initiation, intuition and instincts as presented in three tales recounted in the book; that is the story of Bluebeard, the story of Vasilisa the Wise and the story of the Red Shoes. The aim of the article is to present Estés’s interpretations and her vision of the female self, to confront her readings with other existing analyses of the tales, as well as to show the value of Estés’s work not only for psychological studies but also for cultural and literary analyses.
 
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