The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic: Katábasis and Depth Psychology
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Conributors -- Introduction: Is the Only Way Up? -- Notes -- Part I: Katábasis in Greek and Latin Literature -- Chapter 1: Psycho-Cosmic Descent in Ancient Greece: From Abyss to Self-Containment -- 1 Descent to th...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Milton
Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Katabasis
/ Subconsciousness
/ Jungian psychology
/ Comparison of cultures
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Subconsciousness |
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| Summary: | Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Conributors -- Introduction: Is the Only Way Up? -- Notes -- Part I: Katábasis in Greek and Latin Literature -- Chapter 1: Psycho-Cosmic Descent in Ancient Greece: From Abyss to Self-Containment -- 1 Descent to the Underworld in Mystic Initiation -- 2 The Inner Abyss -- 3 Parmenides -- 4 Plato -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Katabasis in Reverse: Heraclitus, the Archaic, and the Abyss -- Hermann Fränkel on Tauler, Heraclitus, and the abyss -- Prier on archaic logic -- Oppositional structure -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Virgil, Epicureanism, and Unseemly Behaviour: The Epyllion in Georgics 4 and Its Three Katábases -- Unbearable Loss (1): Aristaeus and Cyrene -- Intuition and Determination: Aristaeus and Proteus -- Unbearable Loss (2): Orpheus and Eurydice -- The Anábasis : Orpheus Alone -- Narratives with a Two-Part Structure -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 4: The Neoplatonic Katabasis of the Soul to the World of the Senses: Language as a Tool for Regaining Self-Consciousness -- Carl Jung and Neoplatonism -- Neoplatonic Soul and Self-consciousness -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Acting Out, Science Fiction and Lucian's True History -- The story -- Themes -- Tausk -- Flying saucers -- Forms of 'acting out' and Lucian's truth -- Imagination and truth -- Lucian and psychology -- Notes -- Part II: Katábasis, Goddesses, and Saints -- Chapter 6: Inanna's Descent to the Netherworld and Analytical Psychology: What Has the Mistress of All the Lands Done? 1 -- The Descent of Inanna to the Netherworld -- Inanna's Destination: The Great Below -- Inanna's Katabasis : A Tale of Three Deities -- Inanna as Transcendent Function -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Katabasis in an Ancient Indian Myth: Savitri Encounters Yama -- The Cultural Sphere of the East. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (249 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-000-65622-0 |
