The Ecstatic and the Archaic: An Analytical Psychological Inquiry

ISBN-13: 9781138300545 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 166 str.

Paul Bishop; Leslie Gardner; Paul Bishop

Opis

How these two concepts - the ecstatic and the archaic - are articulated and co-implicated constitutes the core question underlying this edited collection, which examines both the present day and antiquity in order to trace the insistent presence of the ecstatic amid the archaic.

Recenzje

"This accomplished collection of mind-opening essays explores the notion of ecstasy as it manifests in the archaic, that is, a primordial state of total immersion in the world […] A living sense of the persistence of the archaic in the present [is] evocatively argued by this book." - British Journal of Psychotherapy 35, 2 (2019)

Spis treści

Contributors;  Preface, Leslie Gardner;  Introduction, Paul Bishop;  Part I: ECSTASY AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL, 1. The stream of desire and Jung’s concept of psychic energy, Raya A. Jones;  2. The characters speak because they want to speak: Jung, Dionysus, theatre, and therapy, Mark Saban;  3. Ancient psychotherapy? Fifth-century BCE Athenian intellectuals and the cure of disturbed minds, Yulia Ustinova;  4. Antiquity and anxiety: Freud, Jung, and the impossibility of the archaic, Alan Cardew;  Part II: ECSTATIC-ARCHAIC HISTORY, 5. I must get out (of myself) more often? Jung, Klages, and the ecstatic-archaic, Paul Bishop;  6. Ecstatic atoms: The question of Oresteian individuation, Ben Pestell;  7. Monetised psyche and Dionysiac ecstasy, Richard Seaford;  Part III: ANCIENT ECSTATIC IN OTHER WORLDS, 8. History, philosophy, and myth in Luo Guanzhong’s Three Kingdoms, Terence Dawson;  9. Enki at Eridu: God of directed thinking, Catriona Miller; Index