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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Invocation: Dionysos, how it all began : a ritual invocation for the 2012 Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche conference / Craig San Roque -- 1. The hero who would not die : warrior and goddess in Ancient Greek and modern men / Virginia Beane Rutter -- 2. Beauty and the psychoanalytic enterprise : reflections on a rarely acknowledged dimension of the healing process / Donald Kalsched -- 3. Introduction to the Kore Story/Persephone's Dong / Craig San Roque -- 4. Death and necessity at the threshold of new life / Richard Trousdell -- 5. How Hermes and Apollo came to love each other in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes : imagination and form in Ancient Greece and modern psyche / Jules Cashford -- 6. Penelope scapes / Melina Centomani Rutter -- 7. Dreaming in place : Santorini, Greece / Robin van Loben Sels -- Closing: travelling Ariadne : a romance / Craig San Roque |
| Summary |
Between ancient Greece and modern psyche lies a divide of not only three thousand years, but two cultures that are worlds apart in art, technology, economics and the accelerating flood of historical events. This unique collection of essays from an international selection of contributors offers compelling evidence for the natural connection and relevance of ancient myth to contemporary psyche, and emerges from the second 'Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche' conference held in Santorini, Greece, in 2012. This volume is a powerful homecoming for those seeking a living connection between the psyche of the ancients and our modern psyche. This book looks at eternal themes such as love, beauty, death, suicide, dreams, ancient Greek myths, the Homeric heroes and the stories of Demeter, Persephone, Apollo and Hermes as they connect with themes of the modern psyche. The contributors propose that that the link between them lies in the underlying archetypal patterns of human behaviour, emotion, image, thought, and memory. Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche: Archetypes Evolving makes clear that an essential part of deciphering our dilemmas resides in a familiarity with Western civilization's oldest stories about our origins, our suffering, and the meaning or meaninglessness in life. It will be of great interest to Jungian psychotherapists, academics and students as well as scholars of classics and mythology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 17, 2015) |
| Subject |
Social psychology -- Greece -- History
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Civilization, Modern.
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Archetypes in civilization.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Archetypes in civilization
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Civilization, Modern
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Social psychology
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rutter, Virginia Beane, editor.
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Singer, Thomas, 1942- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781315731193 |
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1315731193 |
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9781317551256 |
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1317551257 |
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0415714311 |
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9780415714310 |
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041571432X |
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9780415714327 |
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9781317551249 |
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1317551249 |
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9781317551232 |
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1317551230 |
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