Facing the Gods
Author | : James Hillman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1980 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105034382114 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "The Gods have become diseases," said C.G. Jung, & these nine chapters show how major figures of the Greek mythological imagination are still at work in the contemporary psyche. This book is both reliably scholarly & intuitively psychological. It offers the reader ways of finding mythical backgrounds for personal experiences. Here we can feel how the Gods & Goddesses influence symptoms, ideas, attitudes, relationships, & dream imagery. Includes chapters by: Karl Kerenyi on Artimis in girlhood, Rene Malamud on Amazons & creative passion, Murray Stein on Hephaistos & the art of introversion, David L. Miler on Rhea the Grandmother, Barbara Kirksey on Hestia & the power of the hearth, William Doty on Hermes in all his guises, Chris Downing on Ariadne, wife to Dionysos, James Hillman on Athene & Necessity & on Dionysos in Nietzsche & Jung.