Uncovering the Feminine Psyche
Estés doesn’t explain women — she unmasks the myths that have misnamed them. She shows us: when a woman “overreacts,” she might be responding to an invisible history. When she withdraws, it might be a sacred descent, not defeat. Her work isn’t about taming the feminine — it’s about recognizing its deep intelligence.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés is a Jungian psychoanalyst, cantadora (keeper of stories), and author of *Women Who Run with the Wolves*. Through ancient myth and poetic psychology, she illuminates the instinctual psyche — particularly in women, but relevant to all. Her work helps us see that what we often misunderstand as irrational or emotional is actually the deep intelligence of the wild feminine.
Based on Clarissa Pinkola Estés on On Being with Krista Tippett, summarised and reframed by Insights.
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