Terence Dawson

Orpheus and Eurydice in Myth, History, and Analytical Psychology (eBook, ePUB)

Loss, Longing, and Self-Awareness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth. In the last 2,000 years, it has captivated the imagination of successive ages. Writers and other artists have turned to it to explore unexpectedly diverse concerns, from classical philosophy, through Christian values, to challenges involving individual psychology and societal well-being.

Dawson's study of the mythic imagination traces how these concerns unfold in poems, plays, novels, films, paintings, operas, ballets, and sculptures. It charts a history of responses to the experience of loss and longing and the need to grow in self-awareness. And it illustrates how responses to this myth anticipate many of the claims associated with analytical psychology.

This book will be of interest to analysts, scholars, and students working with Jung's ideas, and to all those interested in adaptations of myth and the implications they harbour.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040307540
• Artikelnr.: 72647327

Autorenporträt

Terence Dawson is an independent scholar, following a career teaching English and European literature at universities in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Orpheus, or Impossible Longing 1. The Myth of Orpheus
and Eurydice as Moral Philosophy: Virgil's Epyllion 2. The Myth of Orpheus
and Eurydice as Psychological Process: Ovid's 'Song of Orpheus' 3. The Myth
of Orpheus and Eurydice, Classical Philosophy, and Christian Allegory: Late
Antiquity and the Middle Ages 4. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the
Exploration of Love: The Renaissance and Early Baroque 5. The Myth of
Orpheus and Eurydice and Social, Personal, and Political Concerns: The Late
Baroque and the Age of Sensibility 6. Romantic Identification with Orpheus:
The Nineteenth Century Part 2: Eurydice, or Unbearable Loss 7. Orpheus and
Eurydice, Dissociative Tendencies, and Self-Transformation: Early
Twentieth-Century Modernism 8. Orpheus and Eurydice, Dysfunctional Times,
and the Need to Testify: The Second World War 9. Orpheus as Embodiment of
the Creative Impulse: The 1950s 10. Orpheus Trapped Inside a Tragic Myth:
1960 to 1995 11. Orpheus and Eurydice, Confronting Reality and
Self-Awareness: 1995 to 2020