Hijacked by Eros : a Jungian analyst's picaresque adventures in the pleroma; with The Eros aspect of the eye by A.R. Pope.

Book three of the Eros trilogy".

Part 1- Hijacked by Eros. 1 Introduction. 2 Nora, musicalia and the pleroma. 3 No joy in Mudville. 4 What men and women want. 5 Sacrifice. 6 Romance. 7 Natura. 8 The writing process. 9 Distant love. 10 Two icons. 11 The upside of neurosis. 12 On becoming conscious. 13 Self-knowledge and statistics. 14 Personality and aloneness. 15 Solitude and hospitality. 16 Aging. Part 2 - The Eros aspect of the eye. 1 Introduction: The eye goddess. 2 The Eros aspect of the eye as depicted in:. Egyptian mythology. Religion in ancient Greece. The Song of Solomon. The works of Rabanus Maurus, one of the Church Fathers. The Middle Ages: Christian ritual; the writings of Marsilio Ficino. A Tibetan myth. Christian mysticism. The analytical situation, modern dreams and visions. Epilogue

'...Of course all kinds of opposites assail us in daily life and relationships, but I am thinking here of the antinomies of Logos and Eros, which is to say, the disparity between thinking and feeling. I have been a devoted acolyte of C.G. Jung for many years, and remain so. But I have also found my own voice in a genre that I accidentally invented with Chicken Little: The Inside Story, which I facetiously dubbed to be a "Jungian romance." This genre is not everyone's delight, but it is mine own. Subsequent books in a similar vein, like this latest volume in The Eros Trilogy, lead me to believe that there is a place for the romantic integration of Jung's ideas with the spectrum of Eros that is oriented to feeling-sensation values, rather than the rational, Renaissance perspective my generation was taught to revere.'

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