The Great Mother

The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype

Author	Erich Neumann
Original title	Die große Mutter. Der Archetyp des grossen Weiblichen
Translator	Ralph Manheim
Language	German
Subject	Mother goddesses, Feminine archetypes
Publisher	Bollingen Foundation, Princeton University Press
Publication date	1955, 2d ed. 1963, 2015
Publication place	Switzerland, Israel
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	379 text + 185 plates
ISBN	0-691-01780-8 (paperback) 0-691-09742-9 (hardcover)
LC Class	55-10026

The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype (German: Die große Mutter. Der Archetyp des grossen Weiblichen) is a book discussing mother goddesses by the psychologist Erich Neumann. The dedication reads, "To C. G. Jung friend and master in his eightieth year". Although Neumann completed the German manuscript in Israel in 1951,^[2] The Great Mother was first published in English in 1955.^[3] The work has been seen as an enduring contribution to the literature inspired by Jung, and was the first to analyze an archetype with such depth and scope.