Jungian psychoanalyst and cantadora, or "keeper of the old stories in the Hispanic tradition," Clarissa Pinkola Estés has interests ranging from psychology and women's studies to mythology, spiritual development, and poetry. Her epigrammatic sayings are collected by devoted readers: If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more. I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and your laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

BACKGROUND
Maven Productions / Dr. Estés
http://www.mavenproductions.com/estes.html

BOOKS
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992), GR 470 E79 W6, currently on reserve at the circulation desk, is in the Hedberg collection.

La loba, the Wolf Woman, pp. 25-31. Skeleton Woman: Facing the Life / Death / Life Nature of Love, pp. 130-65.

The Faithful Gardener: A Wise Tale About That Which Can Never Die (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995) is on order and will be placed on reserve at the circulation desk when it arrives.  To consult the library catalog for its permanent location, click here.

ARTICLES BY...
"Letter to a Young Activist during Troubled Times"
http://www.kporterfield.com/healing/estes.html

"I Am Your Mother [la Virgen de Guadalupe]." U.S. Catholic, 67,12 (Dec. 2002), 16-20.

With Alan Dumas. "12 Traits for Lifelong Relationships." Rocky Mountain News (Denver), 8 Feb. 1998, p. 6F.

...AND ABOUT
King, Patricia. "The Call of the Wild Woman." Newsweek, 120, 25 (21 Dec. 1992), 59.

Kurth, Peter, and Ross MacDonald. "The FYI Guide to Women Gurus." Forbes, 53, 10 (9 May 1994), S104-09.

OTHER RECOMMENDED READINGS
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi
http://www.prayerguide.org.uk/stfrancis.htm

Heschel, Abraham Joshua. I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology. Ed. Samuel H. Dresner. NY: Crossroad Publishing Co., 1983. On order; to be placed on reserve at the circulation desk when it arrives.


To access a number of the above articles from offcampus, current Carthage students, staff, and faculty need to install a proxy. Others are welcome to read the articles in the Hedberg Library.

 

Compiled by Tina Eger
27 October 2005