Christine Downing

Gods in our Midst

Mythological Images of the Masculine: A Woman’s View

152 pages, ISBN 1-882670-28-0 / 978-1-882670-28-4, Spring Publications

"Let no one of the gods vanish. We need each and every one, every one should matter to us, every perfected images". No writer of her generation has taken Rilke’s words as thoroughly to heart as has Christine Downing. She turns to the "gods in our midst" and shows how these energies and epiphanies embodied in male egos are relevant to women’s inner experience, their most profound needs and hopes, their bitterest suffering and greatest fear.