Ancient and modern themes of initiation, trauma, gender, journey, homecoming and love are explored through Greek mythology by the contributors to this book.
Chapter headings include:
- Saffron Offering and Blood Sacrifice: Transformation Mysteries in Jungian Analysis
- Coming home to Demeter: Reflections on Pregnancy as a Natural Initiation in the Dreams of Immigrant Women
- Myth, Memory, Mitigation: Natural Disaster and the Ancient Aegeans
- Surviving Trauma, Becoming Human: Victim and Hero roles in the Oresteia of Aeschylus
- Sappho and Enheduanna
- Wrestling with Eros: The forgotten Myth of Anteros
- Leaping for Themis: A 40 year long active imagination, built on a 100 year old book, based upon a 3,500 year old myth (Hymn of the Kouretes)
- The Shield of Athena: Archetypal Images and Women as Political Leaders
- Bed, Bath and Beyond: The journey that is not a journey/the home that is not a home – Psyche between Home and Homelessness in the Odyssey
This book, published by Spring Journals and edited by Jungian analysts Virginia Beane Rutter and Thomas Singer, will be of interest not only to psychotherapists and Jungians, but to anyone interested in mythology and how its ancient rituals re-emerge as modern symbols of transformation.
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