Main description:

Blends expert insights on ancient Greek thought and modern psychoanalysis; focuses on expanding analytic theory and clinical practice; contains rich clinical material

Contents:

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