Dennis Pottenger

Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural Complexes and the Redemptive Power of the Abjected Feminine
Redaktion: Pottenger, Rebecca

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers a depth psychological analysis of the art and life of Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter. The book uses Varo's paintings in a revolutionary way: to critique the patriarchal underpinnings of Jungian psychology, alchemy, and Surrealism, illuminating how Varo used painting to address cultural complexes that silence female expression.

The book focuses on how the practice of alchemical psychology, through the power of imagination and the archetypal Feminine, can lead to healing and transformation for individuals and culture. Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers the first in-depth psychological treatment of the role alchemy played in the friendship between Varo and Leonora Carrington-a connection that led to paintings that protest the pitfalls of patriarchy.

This unique book will be of great interest for academics, scholars, and post-graduate students in the fields of analytical psychology, art history, Surrealism, cultural criticism, and Jungian studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000377477
• Artikelnr.: 61314793

Autorenporträt

Dennis Pottenger is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and award-winning literary journalist based in the USA.



Rebecca Livingston Pottenger is a licensed psychotherapist, feminist scholar, and adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prelude: Preparing the Canvas
Part I - The Death of Remedios Varo and the Science of All Things
One - Varo's Alchemical Practice of Painting and the Problem of Patriarchy
Two -The Fructifying Bonfire of Trauma and Death
Three - Putting the Canvas on the Easel: Surrealism, Alchemy, and the
Unconscious
Four - The End as Beginning: Varo's Dream of the Executioner, Last
Painting, and Death
Five - Embroidering the Earth's Mantle: Psychology, Alchemy, and Weaving
the Garment of a New World
Six - Voyage to the Center of the Inner World: The Feminine Quest, the
Labyrinth, and the Dangerous Secret
Seven - Cauldrons of Color: Dead Leaves and the Alchemical Movement Between
Life, Death, and Rebirth
Eight - Birds and Eggs: Symbol of the Liberated Soul and Image of
Immortality
Nine - The Dream of the Executioner: A Paradigm Shift
Part II - Mystical Sisters: Varo, Carrington, the Eternal Feminine, and the
Unmaking of Patriarchy
Ten - Kindred Spirits: Varo, Carrington, and the Possibilities of Women's
Creative Power
Eleven - Breaking Out: Varo, Carrington, and Blackening the Patriarchal
Paradigm
Twelve - In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf: Humiliated Manhood and
Re-Visioning of the Feminine
Thirteen - Alchemy in Exile: Varo and Carrington in Mexico City
Fourteen - The Way They Loved Each Other: The Crucible of Friendship and
the Unmaking of Patriarchy
Part III - Symbols of Transformation: The Golden Key, the Black Door, and
the Inestimable Value of the Living Third Thing
Fifteen - Imaginal Dialogues: The Alchemical Treasure of the Feminine