Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche: Archetypes Evolving [Paperback]

Beane Rutter and Singer, Introduction. San Roque, Dionysos, How It All Began: A Ritual Invocation for the 2012 Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche Conference. Beane Rutter, The Hero Who Would Not Die: Warrior and Goddess in Ancient Greek and Modern Men. Kalsched, Beauty and the Psychoanalytic Enterprise: Reflections on a Rarely Acknowledged Dimension of the Healing Process. San Roque, Introduction to the Kore Story/Persephones Dog and The Kore Story/Persephones Dog. Trousdell, Death & Necessity at the Threshold of New Life. Cashford, How Hermes and Apollo Came to Love Each Other in the Homeric Hymn To Hermes: Imagination and Form in Ancient Greece and Modern Psyche. Centomani Rutter, Penelope Scapes. van Loben Sels, Dreaming in Place: Santorini, Greece. San Roque Travelling Ariadne: A Romance.

This volume is a powerful homecoming for those seeking a living connection between the psyche of the ancients and our modern psyche.

The Ancient Greece  Modern Psyche conferences, established by Virginia Beane Rutter and Thomas Singer at Santorini, have quickly become an essential stage for dialogue between classical Greek studies and contemporary analytical psychology. In this brilliant collection of essays, the founding editors bring together seven thinkers who, with lucid double vision, weigh images of the Greek soul with scholarly precision and assess their life-and-death implications for the modern psyche. - Craig E. Stephenson, author of Possession: Jungs Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche (Routledge, 2009) and Anteros: A Forgotten Myth (Routledge, 2011).

Between ancient Greece and modern psyche lies a divide of not only three thousand l³1