Transformation - Softcover

Johnson, R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062504657 ISBN 13: 9780062504654

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991

Synopsis

Some foxing to tanned page edges. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

About this title

About the Author

Robert A. Johnson is the best-selling author of He, She, We, Inner Work, and Femininity Lost and Regained.

From Library Journal

On the heels of Robert Bly's best-selling Iron John ( LJ 11/15/90), comes this slim volume which offers quite a different assessment of maleness and its self-completion. Johnson, author of Inner Work ( LJ 7/86) and We ( LJ 2/1/84), uses three literary archetypes: Don Quixote (simple, two-dimensional man); Hamlet (complex, four-dimensional man); and Faust (complete, four-dimensional man). As a result of modern education and urbanization, Johnson posits, Western man is no longer simple; yet he lacks self-determination and therefore is trapped. The insights found here seem applicable to universal self-fulfillment and provocation (e.g., what significance does Faust's victory over the devil hold for men in these AIDS-ridden, economically troubled times?). Also, where Bly's book demands action, Johnson's is purely cerebral and more interesting to readers familiar with classic literature.
- David Nudo, New York
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062504657
• ISBN 13: 9780062504654
• Binding: Paperback