Living Myth - Softcover

Bond, D. Stephenson

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ISBN 10: 0877738610 ISBN 13: 9780877738619

Publisher: Shambhala, 1993

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Explains how myths can be the root of neurosis or a source of creativity, looks at the personal myths of Black Elk, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.G. Jung, and describes how myths are used in psychotherapy

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About the Author:

D. Stephenson Bond is a practicing psychoanalyst who has lectured widely on the topics of myth and creativity. He is the author of four books, including the new novel Healing Lily (Alternative Views Publishing), and Living Myth: Personal Meaning As a Way of Life (Shambhala), The Archetype of Renewal (Inner City), and ). He graduated with an M.Div. from Vanderbilt in 1981 and from the C. G. Jung Institute, Boston, in 1997, where he still teaches.

From Library Journal:

Since Bill Moyers's public television interviews with Joseph Campbell a few years ago, which were subsequently published as The Power of Myth (Doubleday, 1988), a number of books have explored the importance of myths. According to the current author and other adherents of Campbell and C.G. Jung, myths arise from the collective unconscious, defined as that part of a person, which is attuned to the evolutionary development of the species and which speaks to individuals through dreams and fantasies. Jung's Man and His Symbols (1964) is still the best introduction to this material. Bond offers little new information. A better, more recent choice for public libraries is Thomas Moore's Care of the Soul (HarperCollins, 1992), which covers much the same material in a more interesting and concrete fashion.
- Mary Ann Hughes, Washington State Univ. Lib. , Pullman
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