Ring of power; the abandoned child, the authoritarian father, and the disempowered feminine; a Jungian understanding of Wagner's Ring Cycle
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TextNY HarperSanFrancisco c1992Edition: 1st edDescription: xvi, 245p.; illus.; glossary; appendices; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0-06-250086-4
- Mythology, Germanic--Psychological aspects
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Operas
- Opera--Psychological aspects
- Archetype (Psychology)
- Psychoanalysis and literature
- Jungian psychology
- Mythology, Germanic
- Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Ring des Nibelunge
- Patriarchy
- Dysfunctional families
- Fathers and Daughters
- Abandoned children--Psychology
- Families--Psychological aspects
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Introduction: The ring cycle is about us. 1 The Rhinegold: the quest for power and its psychological cost. 2 The valkyrie: the authoritarian father and the dysfunctional family. 3 Siegfried: the hero as an adult child. 4 Twilight of the gods: truth brings an end to the cycle of power. 5 Freeing ourselves from the ring cycle. 6 Beyond Valhalla: a postpatriarchal world?. Family tree. Glossary of characters, creatures, objects, and places. Symbology of scenes. Selected Readings. Discography
'...Wagner's ever-popular Ring Cycle articulates universal experiences and deep-seated longings by offering a mythology of the dysfunctional family and the patriarchal society in which the quest for power distorts personalities and relationships. We respond to the Ring because we recognize ourselves and our relationships in the Cycle's stern father, disempowered mother, abandoned children, and brave truth-tellers.'
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