Ancient Greece, modern psyche : archetypes in the making

Introduction. Part 1 - Psyche and initiation. 1 Leaping for Themis: a 40-year-long active imagination, built on a 100-year-old-book, based upon a 3,500-year-old myth - Thomas Singer. 2 Saffron offering and blood sacrifice: transformation mysteries in Jungian analysis - Virginia Beane Rutter. 3 Coming home to Demeter: reflections on pregnancy as a natural initiation in the dreams of immigrant women. Part 2 - Psyche and trauma. 4 Myth, memory, mitigation: natural disaster and the ancient Aegeans - Stephen Tobriner. 5 Surviving trauma, becoming human: victim and hero roles in the Oresteia of Aeschylus - Richard Trousdell. Part 3 - Psyche and gender. 6 Sappho and Enheduanna - Betty De Shong Meador. 7 Wrestling with Eros: the forgotten myth of Anteros - Craig Stephenson. 8 The shield of Athena: archetypal images and women as political leaders - Betty S. Flowers. Part 4 - Psyche and home. 9 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 - Ronald Schenk

'In this wonderfully inspiring book the authors have forged an entirely new relationship between Ancient Greek myth and our modern psyche. Never before has there been such a committed and sustained exploration of how the images, dramas, and energies of Greek myth are still vitally alive in our dreams and imaginations and in the mythic structures of our lives. The editors' passionate love of Greece shines joyfully through the pages, making a delight of its profound scholarship and illuminating the ancient texts from personal experience, which in turn is enlightened by the archetypal perspective of myth.'

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