Rafael López-Pedraza

Dionysus in Exile

On the Repression of the Body and Emotion

2000 104 pages, ISBN 1-888602-10-4 / 978-1-888602-10-4, Chiron

The Imagery of Dionysus-contradictory in nature and irrational at heart-is difficult terrain to explore. But it is these very traits that make the greek god of wine, madness,women, and tragedy and exceptional guide through the shadows of the collective psyche.

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Rafael López-Pedraza was born in Cuba in 1920 of Spanish heritage. He attended the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich from 1963 until 1974. In 1974 he came to Caracas, Venezuela, where he divided his time between professorial duties, a psychotherapeutic practice and writing. He died on 10 January 2011 at 90 years of age.