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**** elib.tech Exclusive ****THANKS & Credits to Onthejourney the original upload.Since the original is exclusive, this is too. ********************The Lover is the archetype men find most difficult to access without experiencing frightening emotional states. The Lover encourages an unbounded connectedness to life through powerful feelings, but if a man’s Lover is poorly developed, he may find himself alternately promiscuous and isolated, emotionally vulnerable and interpersonally exploitative, impulsive and addictive, yet afraid of his passion. Accessing Lover energy properly, a man feels enthusiastic and compassionate about his work and relationships. Celebrating the beauty of nature and the physical world, the mature Lover becomes a guardian of the Earth.•    The Lover in Myth, Folklore and Religion•    The Role of the Lover in Masculine Selfhood•    Psychopathology and the Boy Lover•    Healing the Lover: Resources from Analysis, Ritual and Human SpiritualityQuote:From Kirkus ReviewsThis last volume of four (The Magician Within, p. 208, etc.) from Jungian psychoanalyst Moore and mythologist Gillette completes a vision of the mature man as a noble, emotionally generous, artistically expressive soul. Here, stating that all men are “wired for loving, and for mystical experience,” the authors consider why this is such a difficult “energy” for most men to master. They agree with men’s movement luminary Robert Bly on the importance of a father to a boy’s psychological development and on the connection between impaired adult instincts and early loss or deprivation: “What determines the mode of a man’s loving [monogamy, promiscuity, etc.] involves the ways in which he was wounded and affirmed as a boy.” Men can struggle to avoid shadow behaviors and learn to use techniques to access the “Lover within”–techniques including some form of play every day (to honor “the Child within”); expressive activities (especially dance); and the development of capacities for spiritual experience. In this view of the authentic lover’s ideal, a romantic involvement is central, not to find the lost elements or repressed parts of a man’s life–though failure to do so sours a relationship–but to share what Harville Hendrix calls a “passionate friendship” (a friendship with, the authors add, a spiritual dimension). Shorter and less burdened by elaborate distinctions than the previous books–and offering a more streamlined roundup of background examples and fewer of those murky philosophical passages that erect barriers where there should be bridges. But even so, it’s a dense and weighty read. (Fifty b&w photos, eight pages color photos–not seen)This is an OCR from photos and took ages. Be gentle & i like Thanks …–Join the New Robert Moore GB :