American Jungian analyst who wrote The Heroine's Journey — arguing that Joseph Campbell's hero's journey model describes a masculine developmental arc, and that women need a different model, a 'heroine's journey' that involves reconnecting with the abandoned feminine after striving for success in the masculine world.
Proposes the Heroine's Journey as the distinctively feminine developmental arc — where the hero's journey moves toward achievement, separation, and individuation, the heroine's journey begins with the abandonment of the feminine to achieve in the masculine world and returns to a hard-won integration of both.
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