Virginia Beane Rutter - Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche: Archetypes Evolving

ANCIENT GREECE, MODERN PSYCHE

Between Ancient Greece and modern psyche lies a divide of not only three thousand years, but of two cultures that are worlds apart in art, technology, economics, and the accelerating flood of historical events. This unique collection of essays from an international selection of contributors offers compelling evidence for the natural connection and relevance of ancient myth to contemporary psyche, and emerges from the second Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche conference held in Santorini, Greece, in 2012.

This volume is a powerful homecoming for those seeking a living connection between the psyche of the ancients and our modern psyche. The book looks at eternal themes such as love, beauty, death, suicide, dreams, ancient Greek myths, the Homeric heroes, and the stories of Demeter, Persephone, Apollo, and Hermes as they connect with themes of the modern psyche. The contributors propose that the link between them lies in the underlying archetypal patterns of human behavior, emotion, image, thought, and memory.

Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche: Archetypes Evolving makes clear that an essential part of deciphering our dilemmas resides in a familiarity with Western civilizations oldest stories about our origins, our suffering, and the meaning or meaninglessness in life. It will be of great interest to Jungian psychotherapists, academics, and students as well as scholars of classics and mythology.

Virginia Beane Rutter, MA, MS, and Thomas Singer, MD, are both Jungian psychoanalysts affiliated with the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco who have life-long connections to Greek culture. They are co-authors and editors of a previous volume of Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche which originated from the first Nomikos Conference in Santorini. Beane Rutter studies ancient myths and rites of passage through art, archaeology, and psychology and writes about the archetype of initiation as it appears in the clinical work of individuals today. Singer has produced and written multiple publications that focus on the cultural complex. He currently serves as President of the National Board of ARAS (the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism).

ANCIENT GREECE, MODERN PSYCHE

Archetypes Evolving

Edited by Virginia Beane Rutter and Thomas Singer

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Ancient Greece, modern psyche : archetypes evolving / edited by Virginia Beane Rutter and Thomas Singer.

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1. Social psychologyGreeceHistory. 2. Civilization, Modern. 3. Archetypes in civilization. I. Rutter, Virginia Beane. II. Singer, Thomas,

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HM1027.G8A53 2015

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FOR PETER, NAFTALI, AND MELINA WITH ALL MY HEART
Virginia Beane Rutter

FOR JANE WHO IS THE LOVE OF MY LIFE
Thomas Singer

CONTENTS

CRAIG SAN ROQUE

VIRGINIA BEANE RUTTER

DONALD KALSCHED

CRAIG SAN ROQUE

RICHARD TROUSDELL

JULES CASHFORD

MELINA CENTOMANI RUTTER

ROBIN VAN LBEN SELS

CRAIG SAN ROQUE

Virginia Beane Rutter, MA, MS, is a Jungian analyst who trained at the C. G. Jung Institutes of Zurich and San Francisco. Her first masters degree in art history (University of California, Berkeley) and an early sustaining love of Greece developed into a passion for studying ancient myths and rites of passage through art, archaeology, and psychology. These studies grew out of her clinical practice and coalesced around archetypal themes of initiation as they manifest in the unconscious material of women and men today. She is the author of three books, including Woman Changing Woman: Restoring the MotherDaughter Relationship (HarperCollins, 1993, and Spring, 2009); Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters (Conari Press, 1996); and Embracing Persephone: How to Be the Mother You Want for the Daughter You Cherish (Kodansha, 2000, Conari Press, 2001). Her article, The Archetypal Paradox of Feminine Initiation in Analytic Work, is a chapter in Initiation: The Living Reality of an Archetype (Routledge, 2007), which she co-edited with Thomas Kirsch and Thomas Singer; and her article Saffron Offering and Blood Sacrifice: Transformation Mysteries in Jungian Analysis, is a chapter in the first volume of Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche: Archetypes in the Making (Spring, 2011), which she co-edited with Thomas Singer.

Thomas Singer, MD, is a Jungian analyst and psychiatrist. After studying religion and European literature at Princeton University, he graduated from Yale Medical School and later trained at Dartmouth Medical Center and the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. His writing includes articles on Jungian theory, politics, and psychology, and he has written and/or edited the following books: Whos the Patient Here? Portraits of the Young Psychotherapist (Oxford University Press, 1978, with Stuart Copans); A Fans Guide to Baseball Fever: The Official Medical Reference (Elijim Publications, 1991, with Stuart Copans and Mitchell Rose); The Vision Thing: Myth, Politics and Psyche in the World (Routledge, 2000); The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society (Routledge, 2004, with Samuel L. Kimbles); Initiation: The Living Reality of an Archetype (Routledge, 2007, with Thomas Kirsch and Virginia Beane Rutter); Psyche and the City: A Souls Guide to the Modern Metropolis (Spring, 2010); Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche: Archetypes in the Making (Spring, 2011, with Virginia Beane Rutter), Placing Psyche: Exploring Cultural Complexes in Australia (Spring, 2011); and Listening to Latin America: Exploring Cultural Complexes in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela (Spring, 2012).

Jules Cashford, MA, is a Jungian analyst from the Association of Jungian Analysts in London. She studied philosophy at St. Andrews University and post-graduate literature at Cambridge, where she was a Supervisor in Tragedy for some years. She has translated The Homeric Hymns from the Greek for Penguin Classics and is the author of Gaia: From Goddess to Symbol