Mythology, Archetypes, and Fairy Tales
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Some of my favorite books:
- Saga - Best New Writings on Mythology Vol. 1. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press
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- Saga - Best New Writings on Mythology Vol. 2. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press
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Jonathan Young
I also recommend Jonathan Young's continuing education seminars seminars, presented by the Center for Story and Symbol as an enjoyable way to spend a Saturday and get MCEP CE credits, too.
- The Mythic Imagination: The Question for Meaning through Personal Mythology
- Stephen Larsen/ Paperback
- Working With Images : The Theoretical Base of Archetypal Psychology
- Benjamin Sells(Editor)
- Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
- Marie Louise Von Franz/ Paperback
Review: Fairy tales contain profound lessons for those who would dive into their meaning. Von Franz draws on her vast knowledge of folklore and her experience as a pychoanalyst and a collaborator with Jung to illuminate on fairy tales and the dark side of life and human pyschology.
- Birthday Letters
- Ted Hughes on his marriage to Sylvia Plath
Review: In Birthday Letters we now have Hughes's response to Plath's white-hot mythologizing. Lost happiness intensifies present pain, but so does old despair: "Your ghost," he acknowledges, "inseparable from my shadow." Ranging from accessible short-story-like verses to tightly wound, allusive lyrics, the poems push forward from initial encounters to key moments long after Plath's death. In "Visit," he writes, "I look up--as if to meet your voice / With all its urgent future / that has burst in on me. Then look back / At the book of the printed words. / You are ten years dead. It is only a story. / Your story. My story." These poems are filled with conditionals and might-have-beens, Hughes never letting us forget forces in motion before their seven-year marriage and final separation. When he first sees Plath, she is both scarred (from her earlier suicide attempt) and radiant: "Your eyes / Squeezed in your face, a crush of diamonds, / Incredibly bright, bright as a crush of tears..." But Fate and Plath's father, Otto, will not let them be. In the very next poem, "The Shot," her trajectory is already plotted. Though Hughes is her victim, her real target is her dead father--"the god with the smoking gun."Of course, "The Shot" and the accusatory "The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother" are an incitement to those who side (as if there is a side!) with Plath. Newsweek has already chalked up the reaction of poet and feminist to the book: "My teeth began to grind uncontrollably." But Hughes makes it clear that his poems are written for his dead wife and living children, not her acolytes' bloodsport. He has also, of course, written them for himself and the reader. Pieces such as "Epiphany," "The 59th Bear," and "Life After Death" are masterful mixes of memory and image. In "Epiphany," for instance, the young Hughes, walking in London, suddenly spots a man carrying a fox inside his jacket. Offered the cub for a pound, he hesitates, knowing he and Plath couldn't handle the animal--not with a new baby, not in the city. But in an instant, his potent vision extends beyond the animal, perhaps to his and Plath's children:
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Already past the kittenish
But the eyes still small,
Round, orphaned-looking, woebegone
As if with weeping. Bereft
Of the blue milk, the toys of feather and fur,
The den life's happy dark. And the huge whisper
Of the constellations
Out of which Mother had always returned.- Saga : Best New Writings on Mythology (Vol 1) Vol 1
- Jonathan Young (Editor)
Reviews
Forward to SAGA - Best New Writings on Mythology
Whitecloud Press
Parabola's Review of SAGA
Link to Tri-City Herald Review of SAGA
- The Love Cure : Therapy Erotic and Sexual (Jungian Classics Series, 13)
- John Ryan Haule
- Power in the Helping Professions
- Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig, John Ryan Haule
- The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart : Poems for Men
- Divine Madness : Archetypes of Romantic Love
- John R. Haule
- The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Bollingen, No 17)
- Joseph Campbell
- The Hero With a Thousand Faces (Mythos : Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology, Vol. 17)
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (6 Cassettes)
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyer : Program Five : Love and the Goddess/Cassette Vol 5
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyer : Program Four : Sacrifice and Bliss/Program 4 (Cassette) Vol 4
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyer : Program Six : Masks of Eternity/Cassette Vol 6
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyer, Program One : The Hero's Adventure/Cassettes Vol 1
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyer : Program Five : Love and the Goddess/Cassette Vol 5
- Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers / Audio Cassette
- Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth With Bill Moyer, Program Two : The Message of the Myth/Cassette Vol 2
- Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers / Audio Cassette
- Joseph Campbell Companion : Reflections on the Art of Living
- The Masks of God : Occidental Mythology Vol 3
- Joseph Campbell
- The Masks of God : Oriental Mythology Vol 2
- Joseph Campbell
- The Masks of God : Primitive Mythology Vol 1
- The Mythic Image (Princeton/Bollingen Paperbacks)
- Myths to Live by
- The Mythic Image (Princeton/Bollingen Paperbacks)
- Joseph Campbell
- An Open Life : Joseph Campbell in Conversation With Michael Toms
- Joseph Campbell
- The Power of Myth
- Joseph Campbell, et al
- The Power of Myth (Illustrated Edition)
- Joseph Campbell, et al
- Transformations of Myth Through Time
- Joseph Campbell
- The Universal Myths : Heroes, Gods, Tricksters and Others
- Alexander Eliot, et al
- The Way of Myth : Talking With Joseph Campbell (Shambhala Pocket Classics)
- Joseph Campbell, Fraser Boa
- The Inner Reaches of Outer Space : Metaphor As Myth and As Religion
- Joseph Campbell
- The Mythic Dimension : Selected Essays 1959-1987 (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)
- Joseph Campbell, Antony Van Couvering (Editor)
- Women Who Run With the Wolves : Myths & Stories About the Wild Woman Archetype
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes / Audio Cassette
- Women Who Run with the Wolves; Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- The Inner Reaches of Outer Space : Metaphor As Myth and As Religion
- Joseph Campbell
- Myths, Dreams, and Religion
- Joseph Campbell
- Animus and Anima
- Emma Jung
- The Grail Legend
- Emma Jung, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- Carl Gustav Jung
- Renewal Myths and Rites of the Primitive Hunters and Planters (Eranos Lectures, Series 9)
- Joseph Campbell
- Alchemical Active Imagination
- Marie-Luise Von Franz, et al
- Alchemy : An Introduction to the Symbolism and th E Psychology
- Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche
- Marie-Louise Von Franz, et al
- Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, No. 76)
- Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- C. G. Fung : His Myth in Our Time Vol 77
- Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Creation Myths
- Marie-Luise Von Franz, et al
- Dreams (C.G. Jung Foundation Book)
- Marie-Louise Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
- Marie-Louise Von Franz, et al
- On Dreams & Death : A Jungian Interpretation
- Marie-Louise Von Franz, et al
- Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology : Reflections of the Soul
- Marie-Louis Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairytales
- Marie Louise Von Franz, Marie Louise Von Franz
- Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales (A C.G. Jung Foundation Book)
- Marie-Luise Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Time Rhythm and Repose
- Marie Luise Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- The Grail Legend
- Emma Jung, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Man and His Symbols
- Carl Gustav Jung, et al
- On Dreams and Death : A Jungian Interpretation
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Psyche and Matter
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Psychotherapy
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Puer Aeternus : A Psychological Study of the Adult Struggle With the Paradise of Childhood
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- The Way of the Dream
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- C G Jung His Myth in Our Time
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- The Feminine in Fairy Tales
- Marie-Luise Von Franz, Marie-Louise Von Franz
- The Golden Ass of Apuleius : The Liberation of the Feminine in Man
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- On Dreams and Death : A Jungian Interpretation
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- The Passion of Perpetua
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Problems of the Feminine in Fairytales
- Marie-Louise Von Franz
- Ecstasy : Understanding the Psychology of Joy
- Robert A. Johnson
- He : Understanding Masculine Psychology
- Robert A. Johnson
- Inner Work : Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
- Robert A. Johnson
- Owning Your Own Shadow : Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
- Robert A. Johnson
- Robert A. Johnson's He : Understanding Masculine Psychology : A Jungian Interpretation of the Myth of Parsifal and His Search for the Holy Grail/Audi
- Robert A. Johnson, et al / Audio Cassette
- Robert A. Johnson's She : Understanding Feminine Psychology of Psyche and Eros/Audio Cassette
- Robert A. Johnson, et al / Audio Cassette
- She : Understanding Feminine Psychology
- Robert A. Johnson
- Transformation : Understanding the Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness
- Robert A. Johnson
- We : Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love
- Robert A. Johnson
- Femininity Lost and Regained
- Robert A. Johnson
- Genograms
- Emily Marlin