The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic: Katábasis and Depth Psychology

ISBN-13: 9780367515010 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str.

Paul Bishop; Terence Dawson; Leslie Gardner

Opis

The Descent of the Soul and the Archaic explores the motif of kátabasis (a "descent" into an imaginal underworld) and the importance it held for writers from antiquity to the present, with an emphasis on its place in psychoanalytic theory.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Is the only way up?  Part I: Katábasis in Greek and Latin Literature  2. Psycho-cosmic descent in ancient Greece: from abyss to self-containment  3. Katabasis in reverse: Heraclitus, the archaic, and the abyss  4. Virgil, epicureanism, and unseemly behaviour  5. The Neoplatonic katabasis of the soul to the world of the senses: Language as a tool for regaining self-consciousness  6. Acting out, science fiction and Lucian's True History  Part II: Katábasis, Goddesses, and Saints  7. Inanna's descent to the netherworld and analytical psychology: What has the mistress of all the lands done?  8. Katabasis in an ancient Indian myth: Savitri Encounters Yama  9. Katabasis in middle eastern female hagiography: a post-Jungian perspective  Part III: Katábasis in Theory  10. Raising hell: Freud's katabatic metaphors in The Interpretation of Dreams  11. Orestes, Katabasis, and aggrieved masculine entitlement  12. Regression, Nekyia, and involution in the thought of Jung and Deleuze  Epilogue  Salon Noir