Bridge Work: Essays on Mythology, Literature and Psychology - Softcover

Slattery, Dennis Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692321837 ISBN 13: 9780692321836

Verlag: Mandorla Books, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The twenty chapters in this volume are divided into Formal Essays and Cultural Essays. Both, however, explore in varying degrees the place of consilience between literature, mythology and depth psychology. The essays seek that place of analogy, or correspondence and of accord between the three bridges, the three disciplines mentioned in its subtitle. Together they amplify and extend what might best be called a psycho-poetics of myth, where mythology is understood as the mucilage or glue that holds psyche and poiesis together in one form and shape. The intention in all the essays is to invite the reader into the discussion with his/her personal myth resonating with the ideas and images present and to remember and reimagine one’s own narrative through the corridors of those presented in the volume. Bridge Work then carries two meanings: it wishes to span disciplines in order to increase one’s range of awareness and it wishes to create a third thing, the bridge itself, as a medium of and for expressing new insights. The hope is that the reader will come away from these twenty expressions of the relational nature of literature to psychology and mythology with a renewed sense of how interdisciplinary studies can reveal other ways of knowing not afforded the specialist inhabiting one field of thought.

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Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has been teaching for 44 years, the last 20 in the Mythological Studies and Depth Psychology and Depth Psychotherapy programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California. He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of 23 books and hundreds of articles and book reviews in magazines, newspapers and collections of essays. See his entire vitae on http://www.dennispslattery.com/ His books include: The Idiot: Dostoevsky’s Fantastic Prince; The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh; Grace in the Desert: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life. With Lionel Corbett he co-edited Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold. He co-edited with Glen Slater Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture; with Jennifer Selig he co-edited two volumes: Reimagining Education: Essays on Reviving the Soul of Learning and The Soul Does Not Specialize: Revaluing the Humanities and the Polyvalent Imagination. He has published five volumes of poetry: Casting the Shadows: Selected Poems; Just Below the Water Line: Selected Poems, both with accompanying CDs; Twisted Sky: Selected Poems, The Beauty Between Words co-authored with Chris Paris; and Feathered Ladder: Selected Poems, with Brian Landis. With Charles Asher he co-authored his first novel, Simon’s Crossing. His two latest books include Creases in Culture: Essays Toward a Poetic of Depth and Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story. His most recent book, Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, is hunting for a publisher. Dr. Slattery offers writing retreats on personal myth in the United States, Europe and Ireland through the work of Joseph Campbell and others. When not writing and teaching, Slattery and his sons ride their motorcycles across the back roads of the Texas Hill Country. Contact: dslattery@pacifica.edu www.dennispslattery.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mandorla Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0692321837
• ISBN 13: 9780692321836
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
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