The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic (eBook, PDF)

Katábasis and Depth Psychology
Redaktion: Bishop, Paul; Gardner, Leslie; Dawson, Terence

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Produktbeschreibung

The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic explores the motif of kátabasis (a "descent" into an imaginal underworld) and the importance it held for writers from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on its place in psychoanalytic theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000656220
• Artikelnr.: 64717908

Autorenporträt

Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Glasgow, UK. Terence Dawson is an independent scholar, following a career of teaching in the UK and Singapore. He has a special interest in the relation between literature, music, and the visual arts. Leslie Gardner is Director of the international literary agency Artellus Limited, based in London, UK. She is a founding member of the International Association of Jungian Studies and is currently a Fellow in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Is the only way up? Part I: Katábasis in Greek and Latin
Literature 2. Psycho-cosmic descent in ancient Greece: from abyss to
self-containment 3. Katabasis in reverse: Heraclitus, the archaic, and the
abyss 4. Virgil, epicureanism, and unseemly behaviour 5. The Neoplatonic
katabasis of the soul to the world of the senses: Language as a tool for
regaining self-consciousness 6. Acting out, science fiction and Lucian's
True HistoryPart II: Katábasis, Goddesses, and Saints 7. Inanna's descent
to the netherworld and analytical psychology: What has the mistress of all
the lands done? 8. Katabasis in an ancient Indian myth: Savitri Encounters
Yama 9. Katabasis in middle eastern female hagiography: a post-Jungian
perspective Part III: Katábasis in Theory 10. Raising hell: Freud's
katabatic metaphors in The Interpretation of Dreams 11. Orestes, Katabasis,
and aggrieved masculine entitlement 12. Regression, Nekyia, and involution
in the thought of Jung and Deleuze Epilogue Salon Noir