A01=Maria Zelia de Alvarenga
Author_Maria Zelia de Alvarenga
Category=JMAJ
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Jung and Analytical Psychology
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- ISBN 9781780491417
- Dimensions: 147 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book presents a broad and deep symbolic reading of the characters involved in the mythical Holy Grail. The author makes several correlations between symbolic readings of the text and the subjective nature of the mythic psyche and personality development today. The Grail, Arthur and his Knights is a mythical-symbolic reading and Jungian analysis of the Grail, with its various forms, origins and manifestations. It is also about Arthur and his loyal and faithful knights of the Round Table and its dangerous chair. The Great Wounded Goddess, the Wasted Land, the Old Wise Merlin and his visions of the future are also re-examined. The book describes the archetyal themes of search, freedom, and the dreaming return of Golden Age. The symbolic reading of these themes according to the Analytical Psychology reveals a wealth of ancient wisdom, transforming the myth, in itself deeply fascinating, into a powerful metaphor for how the search of the individuation process works.
Maria Zelia de Alvarenga is a medical psychiatrist who graduated from the School of Medicine School at Sao Paulo University (FMUSP), and a Jungian analyst in the 'Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia Analitica' (SBPA) and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). She is the editor of the 'Jungian Magazine', where she has published many articles, and is the author of a number of works on mythology, including 'Oedipus, the Hero without Divine Protection', 'Symbolic Mythology, Structures of Psyche and Mythical Regencies', and 'Odysseus: the Hero of Cunning' (with co-author Sylvia Baptista). She has participated and published in the Latin American Congress of Jungian Psychology and was the president of the SBPA from 1995 to 1997, and remains on the institution as a collaborative teacher.
