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1 online resource (249 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Conributors -- Introduction: Is the Only Way Up? -- Notes -- Part I: Katábasis in Greek and Latin Literature -- Chapter 1: Psycho-Cosmic Descent in Ancient Greece: From Abyss to Self-Containment -- 1 Descent to the Underworld in Mystic Initiation -- 2 The Inner Abyss -- 3 Parmenides -- 4 Plato -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Katabasis in Reverse: Heraclitus, the Archaic, and the Abyss -- Hermann Fränkel on Tauler, Heraclitus, and the abyss -- Prier on archaic logic -- Oppositional structure -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Chapter 3: Virgil, Epicureanism, and Unseemly Behaviour: The Epyllion in Georgics 4 and Its Three Katábases -- Unbearable Loss (1): Aristaeus and Cyrene -- Intuition and Determination: Aristaeus and Proteus -- Unbearable Loss (2): Orpheus and Eurydice -- The Anábasis : Orpheus Alone -- Narratives with a Two-Part Structure -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Neoplatonic Katabasis of the Soul to the World of the Senses: Language as a Tool for Regaining Self-Consciousness -- Carl Jung and Neoplatonism -- Neoplatonic Soul and Self-consciousness -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes |
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Chapter 5: Acting Out, Science Fiction and Lucian's True History -- The story -- Themes -- Tausk -- Flying saucers -- Forms of 'acting out' and Lucian's truth -- Imagination and truth -- Lucian and psychology -- Notes -- Part II: Katábasis, Goddesses, and Saints -- Chapter 6: Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld and Analytical Psychology: What Has the Mistress of All the Lands Done? 1 -- The Descent of Inanna to the Netherworld -- Inanna's Destination: The Great Below -- Inanna's Katabasis : A Tale of Three Deities -- Inanna as Transcendent Function -- Notes |
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Chapter 7: Katabasis in an Ancient Indian Myth: Savitri Encounters Yama -- The Cultural Sphere of the East -- Savitri's Descent -- Katabasis in Myths -- The Essence of Solar Descents -- Conclusion: Myths in a Post-Colonial Environment -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Katabasis in Middle Eastern Female Hagiography: A Post-Jungian Perspective -- Introduction: What Is New about This Study -- What Is Katabasis ? -- Stories of the Saints -- Saint Thecla -- Saint Barbara -- Saint Marina the Monk -- Common Factors in These Hagiographies -- Going against the Current and Separating from the Feminine |
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The Identification with the Masculine -- Katabasis, Nature Landscapes, Reconnection: from Institution to Instinct -- The Effect of Katabasis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part III: Katábasis in Theory -- Chapter 9: Raising Hell: Freud's Katabatic Metaphors in The Interpretation of Dreams -- Tectonic Titans and Labours in the Depths -- Coincidentia Oppositorum -- The Road to Hell (Parts 1 and 2) -- Return to Juno -- Notes -- Chapter 10: Orestes, Katabasis, and Aggrieved Masculine Entitlement (in Athens, Rhegium, and Today) -- Orestes: Insane Badness or Exemplary Mental Health? -- Orestes and Katabasis |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Orestes at Rhegium |
| Subject |
Subconsciousness.
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Subconsciousness.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dawson, Terence
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Gardner, Leslie
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| ISBN |
1000656225 |
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9781000656220 |
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