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This is an exceedingly interesting book from a student of Jung's relating specifically to the significance of the many variants of the Moon Myth as it has been handed down through the ages.
To consider the various mythologies as simply superstitions and throw them aside on that basis the author very properly regards as an exceedingly
inadequate method of treatment and totally incapable of explaining their occurrence. Especially, as is well known to the readers of this REVIEW, it is incapable of explaining the enormous number of correspondences, almost identities, between the mythologies of different peoples occupying different portions of the earth's surface and so far as known unrelated to each other in any way that would account for the spread of such ideas from one to the other. Dr. Harding believes that the various myths represent psychological verities which by primitive peoples are projected into the environment, and that instead of being just superstitions they are realities, not realities in the ordinary objective sense but psychological realities.
The moon myth according to the above principles the author traces to the projection of the feminine principle, which exists in all of us because we are bisexual but of course particularly in the woman; and it is this feminine principle which she elaborates and deals with throughout the work, calling particular attention to the fact that we have been living in a man's world—at least western civilization has, and that by losing contact with the feminine principle, which as opposed to the masculine is more of the nature of intuition and feeling while the masculine is more of the nature of intellection, that civilization has lost very greatly and the result is not only a man's world but a world of mechanisms in which the element of spirit and the contact with the fundamental forces of nature as they are exhibited psychologically in the unconscious has been largely lost.
She shows very interestingly that the belief in t