A Re-Visioning of Love

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"In this well-written, intense examination of the dark feminine, Ana Mozol sheds light on the often neglected deeper mysteries of the psyche of women. Chronicling her own experience of these mysteries and of the repressive masculine shadow, she also uncovers the archetypes related to the dark feminine. This work would be welcome at any time but is especially timely as women struggle today to free themselves of sexist abuse and [become] open to the secrets of their own nature." - Jeff Raff, Jungian analyst and author of Jung and the Alchemical Imagination and The Wedding of Sophia

"In A Re-Visioning of Love: Dark Feminine Rising, Ana Mozol has gifted us with her own memories, dreams, and reflections, showing how we repeat our suffering, our symptoms, our habitual unconscious ways of responding. Real remembering always calls for a sustained engagement, and an integral part of that is sharing it with others. Ana herself says that this is the book she wished had existed when she entered the field of depth psychology. We do indeed write for ourselves and discover ourselves through the writing. But we are also always writing for our readers, writing out of a conviction that what we have lived has transpersonal, not only, personal, significance, as any reader of this book will immediately discover." - Christine Downing, author of The Goddess: Mythological Images of the Feminine

"Brilliant and important." - Marion Woodman

"Persephone, Demeter, the demon lover, Ereshkigal, Inanna, Ariadne, Dionysus, and Salome are all summoned by Ana Mozol's essential book about the repressed, excluded, dangerous, and erotic energies of the dark feminine-she who is necessary for the sacred sexuality of body. A Re-Visioning of Love: Dark Feminine Rising is for everyone who has suffered for love, their friends, therapists, and lovers. It is impossible to write an archetypally nuanced and compassionate book about rape. This is such a book. It says what cannot be said and what society does not want to hear about anger around sex, about surviving, and ultimately about living through the initiations of Persephone and Salome. It envisions individuation in ways that leave behind Jung's limitations on his anima and animus theory. Containing a stunning study of Jung's fascination with archetypal Salome, the book also reveals the dark feminine as that which has been swallowed by patriarchy to be literalized into the rape culture of today. Mozol stares unflinchingly into the abyss and shows the way to recover the feminine mysteries sorely needed by both women and men." -Susan Rowland, author of Jung: A Feminist Revision and Remembering Dionysus