Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
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Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
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An exploration of humanity’s age-old fascination with Sirens
• Explains the Sirens’ half-human, half-animal bodies as a metaphor for the psychological challenge that their myth has always embodied
• Fully illustrated in color with works by Rubens, Bosch, Munch, Magritte, and others
Their celestial voices drove mast-lashed Ulysses nearly out of his mind with libidinous promises as they beckoned him ever-closer to paradise--or a rocky death. With womanly torsos and animal lower halves, usually birds or fish, Sirens have long been symbols of the lure of desire--the feminine, as seducer--beckoning men to mystery beyond their ken, or to disaster. This book is both a celebration of Sirens and an examination of the psychology of dichotomy--the diametrically opposed drives and inherent conflicts underlying this female archetype.
