TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merritt, Dennis L
TI  - Hermes, ecopsychology, and complexity theory
T2  - (The dairy farmer's guide to the universe: 3)
SN  - 9781926715445
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Carmel, CA
PB  - Fisher King Press
KW  - Ecology
KW  - FAST
KW  - Nature
KW  - Jungian psychology
KW  - Environmental psychology
KW  - Hermes (Greek deity)
KW  - Music
KW  - Apollo (Deity)
KW  - Sex
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
KW  - Dynamics
KW  - Archetype (Psychology)
KW  - Transitional objects (Psychology)
KW  - Sacred prostitute
KW  - Women--Sexual behavior
KW  - Black virgin
KW  - Mercurius
KW  - Alchemy
KW  - Maria Prophetissa
KW  - Aphrodite (Greek deity)
N1  - Volume 3 of 4; 1 Hermes and the gods. 2 The genesis of Hermes in the individual and in our culture. 3 The power of music. 4 Hermes and the cows. 5 On trial before Zeus. 6 Delineating Apollo's realm from Hermes' realm. 7 The sacred phallus and the guide of souls. 8 Hermes' wand as a symbol for ecopsychology. 9 Hermes and sex. 10 Hermes--god of ecopsychology and complexity theory. Appendix A - Dynamic systems theory. Appendix B - Bootstrapping the archetypes. Appendix C - The human as a situated embodied robot. Appendix D - A dynamic systems model of human development. Appendix E - Hermes as god of dynamic systems theory. Appendix F - Winnicott's transitional object. Appendix G - The sacred prostitute and the erotic feminine. Appendix H - The black goddess. Appendix I - Mercurius. Appendix J - The alchemical distum of Maria Prophetissa. Appendix K - Archetypal psychology and Aphrodite as the soul of the world
N2  - 'An exegesis of the myth of Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle and the story of Hephaestus trapping Aphrodite and Ares in the act are used in ...Volume 3 to set a mythic foundation for Jungian ecopsychology....[The book} illustrates Hermes as the archetypal link to our bodies, sexuality, the phallus, the feminine, and the earth.  Hermes' wand is presented as a symbol for ecopsychology.  The appendices...develop the argument for the application of complexity theory to key Jungian concepts, displacing classical Jungian constructs problematic to the scientific and academic community....'
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