Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought

This unusual book explores the transformative power of liminal experiences in ancient Greek texts, psychoanalytic theory, and the author's own life, to demonstrate how a contemporary understanding of ancient thought can illuminate modern psychoanalytic theory and practice as it relates to trauma, grief, and the development of psyche.

Autorentext

Marcia D-S. Dobson has PhDs in Classical Philology and Clinical Psychology. She has been an award-winning Professor of Classics at Colorado College for over forty years and has a private psychotherapy practice in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Inhalt

Part One: A Search for the Self Through Liminal Experiences 1. Introduction: The Nature of Liminal and Imaginal Experiences 2. An Autobiographical Case Study 3. Dreams and Transitional Experiences 4. Transpersonal and Transformational Space: The Archetypal Great Mother and the Maternal Idiom 5. Radiance, Mourning and Creativity Part Two: Archaic Permeability and Psychic Transformation in Greek Epic Poetry and Tragedy 6. The Archaic Greek Heroic Psyche 7. The Homeric Psyche: A model for the Contemporary Self? 8. The Birth of the Subject in Aeschylus 9. Heroic Catastrophes and Matricentric Coherences Part Three: Case Studies: Myth and Psychoanalysis 10. Imaginal Psyche in Psychotherapy 11. Psychoanalysis as a Metamorphosis: Reclaiming the Depths of Human Experience 12. Concluding Thoughts