The grail, Arthur and his knights : a Jungian symbolic reading

Transl. from Portuguese by Susan Carol Albert.

1 The quest for the Grail. 2 The legend. 3 The history. 4 Courtly love. 5 The search for oneself. 6 Lancelot, Arthur, and Guinevere. 7 The goddess and the sacred chalice. 8 Arthur and his knights. 9 The grail and its questions. 10 Merlin and the search for conjunctio. 11 The importance of the hero in structuring the psyche. 12 In conclusion

'Jung described the process of individuation, applied to the individual. He himself, throughout his life, showed us how the evolution of his thought was recorded in his rich work. Later Jungians described the process of individuation as also applied to culture, an important development in our understanding of cultural phenomena. In [this book, the author] reveals how the individuation of the work is accompanied and followed by the process of individuation of the author. Anyone who reads her work will see the richness of her thought and approach....'

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