Electra : tracing a feminine myth through the Western imagination
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TextSeries: (Electra Series: 1)New Orleans, LA Spring Journal Books c2003Description: xxii, 137p.;bibliog. refs.; indexContent type: - text
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Foreword by Christine Downing.
1 Electra and her ancestors. 2 Electra and modern psychology. 3 Electra and the mother and father archetypes. 4 Electra: the dark puella (Saturn's child). 5 Electra: shadow and animus. 6 Contemporary Electras: Jungian perspectives. 7 Electra and Sylvia Plath
'...Cater treats one of the least appreciated aspects of Jung's archetypal theory, namely, that disturbances in the archetypal field produce profound changes in the personal psyche and contaminate relational dynamics. The combined loss of the father and betrayal of the mother activates a dark puella--with grief in her heart and blood on her mind. Unable to redeem father or imitate mother, she remains suspended between grief and revenge, unable to enter an appropriate womanhood. The torturous story of Sylvia Plath is cautionary, revelatory of the poems, and illustrates her desperate effort to write her way out of the Electra imago.' --James Hollis
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