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"On the Nature of the Animus" and "The Anima as an Elemental Being": two classic papers on the psyche written by Emma Jung (1882-1955), psychoanalyst, writer, and wife of C.G. Jung. First published in English in 1955 that are required reading for training Jungian analysts. How do animus and anima, these all-important Jungian concepts, appear in dreams, fantasies, behavior, and mythology? This book maps a way toward an understanding of the union of opposites and the emergence of the self. There is wisdom in Emma Jung's words, simplicity in her style, and we feel the movement of animus and anima in her soul"--

The greatest single narration of what the mythic world of antiquity looked, thought, and felt like at its climax in a striking translation. In this tour de force, all the classic tales of Western mythology come to life.With 15 ills. "Charles Boer has reshaped the Metamorphoses in a way Olson, Zukofsky, and Pound would have approved of, making us see the poem's violence, turbulence, and angular strangeness. Every age refinds the classics in its own way: Boer sees Ovid's primitive energy and gives us a poem we can place beside Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, a harsher, more staccato, louder Ovid than were used to, but also a more vivid one."-Guy Davenport "This is the authentic Ovid, the feeling, the pulse, the mental and vocal style of a vanished people. Boer has found this hidden beat, and the eerie excitement in every line shows me what veils have lain between us and the ancients up till now . . . This is what the ancients were sitting still for, nothing less, of that I'm certain." -William Kotzwinkle

In Plato's dialogues, we find many references to Corybantic rites-rites of initiation performed in honor of the goddess Rhea. But in the dialogue titled Euthydemus, there is more than a mere reference to the rites to be found. Within the context of Socratic dialectic, the ancient rites of the Corybantes are acted out-although veiled and distorted. This is what Carl Levenson argues in his book.Since the Corybantic rites are of the Dionysian/Eleusinian type, Plato gives us a glimpse of the reality of Dionysian ecstasy. This interesting knowledge of these rites has usually been lost in the academic assertion that the Euthydemus is just a satire on philosophic arguing, and hence it has been consigned to a marginal place in Plato's canon. But here Plato is rejecting his abstract theories in favor of intimacy with the reality of the world, of matter and being rather than form. Levenson states that complete immersion in the material substrate of the world is what Plato discovers at the heart of Dionysian ecstasy, and the aim of ecstasy. Plato says it is to purify the soul of ancient guilt. With a new Afterword by the author.

This book is about the god who electrifies women. And the Dionysian charge that surfaces in the writings of Jungian analyst Linda Fierz-David, classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, and poet H. D. Although the scene of this work is the mystery chamber in Roman Pompeii, it really begins with the need to fathom a mystery of identity. Who were those analytical women who embraced Jung's depth psychology with their whole lives? Why did so many of them never marry? Where did their peculiar strength come from, and why did they choose to study what they chose to study? Nor Hall here uses the ten scenes of dramatic initiation to frame the experiences of death, maenadic madness, and change that occur to women in the midlife constellation of Dionysos, the Shaker and Loosener. Along the way, her meditation-rich with images from dreams, vase paintings, poetry, biographies-considers as well "housebound" women and other constraints, the gripping experience of childbirth, and relationships with the masculine, whatever its form. Color plates.

"The version from which the translation was done is that of the second corrected and expanded edition of Carl Gustav Carus, Psyche: Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Seele (Stuttgart: C.P. Scheitlin, 1851). The first edition (Pforzheim: Flammer und Hoffmann, 1846) has also been consulted"--Acknowledgments page.

Howard McConeghey, an art educator, artist, and practicing art therapist, pioneered archetypal psychology in American art education. This book taps into the ancient notion that "perceiving is breathing." The soul is always "seeing" and making images, and images are a natural function of the psyche's eye. Images are thus the very breath of life and necessary for a vital soul.Five definite principles set forth how the natural eye and hand can be trusted to break through the constrictions of usual art "training," freeing the uniqueness of one's own vision and the soul's joy in expression. Illustrations of paintings from therapy and art history make visible the principles as one moves through the book. The foreword by Thomas Moore, author of "Care of the Soul" and "Soul Mates," derives from his friendship with McConeghey and from Moore's recognition of the importance of this book for both a soulful art and an artful soul.