For more Info visit www.healthlibrary.com "Delving Into the Feminine Part 2: The Heroine's Journey" by Ms. Rukmini Iyer held on 20th Apr 2016. In the second talk in this series, the speaker had explore the concept of The Heroine's Journey propounded by Maureen Murdock. In the previous talk, the speaker explored the Feminine archetypes held in the human consciousness and their impact on our mental and emotional responses in our daily lives. In this talk, she will use mythological references to explore how the journey of the Feminine in us (in men, women and transgender) has been different from that of the Masculine and how we can work with the different paths these energy structures bring to us to overcome psychological roadblocks.

1. Delving into
the Feminine
Part 2: The Heroine’s Journey

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Prelude
Part 1
The Archetypes
• Anima and Animus
• Anima Development
• Role of the Anima

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The Hero’s Journey
• A pattern of narrative identified by the American scholar Joseph Campbell that
appears in drama, storytelling, myth, religious ritual, and psychological
development

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The Monomyth - Christopher Vogler
The
Ordinary
World
The Call to
Adventure
Refusal
of the
Call
Meeting
with the
Mentor
Crossing the
Threshold to
the Special
World
Tests,
Allies and
EnemiesApproach
to the
Innermost
Cave
The
Ordeal
Reward
The Road
Back
The
Resurrect
ion
Return
with the
Elixir

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The Heroine’s Journey
• Written as a response to Joseph Campbell’s book on the hero’s journey by
Maureen Murdock
• She felt his model did not address the specific psycho-spiritual journey of
contemporary women

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The stages of the Heroine’s Journey

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Campbell’s response
“Women don’t need to make the journey. In the whole mythological journey, the
woman is there. All she has to do is realize that she’s the place that people are
trying to get to.”
- Joseph Campbell, 1983

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Thank you!
Reference:
The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness – Maureen Murdock
The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure For Writers - Christopher Vogler