Virginia Beane Rutter and Thomas Singer, Editors

Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche

Archetypes in the Making

253 pages, ISBN 978-1-935528-13-5

From Spring's Analytical Psychology & Contemporary Culture Series
Series Editor: Thomas Singer

This book challenges us to remember that the realm of psyche is older, broader, and deeper than we commonly imagine and that as psyche's realm manifests itself through dreams, myths, poems, art, and other creative works, archetypes are continually in the making. The contributors explore ancient and modern themes of initiation, trauma, gender, journey, homecoming, and love.

Praise for Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche

In this wonderfully inspiring book the authors have forged an entirely new relationship between Ancient Greek myth and our modern psyche.

Never before has there been such a committed and sustained exploration of how the images, dramas, and energies of Greek myth are still vitally alive in our dreams and imaginations and in the mythic structures of our lives.

The editors' passionate love of Greece shines joyfully through the pages, making a delight of its profound scholarship and illuminating the ancient texts from personal experience, which in turn is enlightened by the archetypal perspective of myth. So the rituals of the Ancient Mysteries re-emerge as modern symbols of transformation.

This exciting book is itself a consecration to the rite of individuation.
JULES CASHFORD, AUTHOR OF THE MOON: MYTH AND IMAGE AND CO-AUTHOR OF THE MYTH OF THE GODDESS: EVOLUTION OF AN IMAGE