Synopsis
This book is about the God who electrifies women. And the Dionysian charge that surfaces in thief and writing of Jungian analyst Linda Fierz-David, classicist Jane Ellen Harrison, poet H.D. Although the scene of this work is the mystery chamber in Roman Pompeii, it really begins with the need to fathom a mystery of identity. Who were those analytical women who embraced Jung's depth psychology with their whole lives? Why did so many of them never marry? Where did their peculiar strength come from, and why did they choose to study what they chose to study? Nor Hall here uses the ten scenes of dramatic initiation to frame the experiences of death, maenadic madness, and change that occur to women in the midlife constellation of Dionysos, Loosener. Along the way, her meditation- rich with images from dreams, vase paintings, poetry, biographies - considers as well "housebound" women and other constraints, the gripping experience of childbirth, and relationships with the masculine, whatever its form. Color plates.
About the Author
Eleanor L. Hall (b.1947). Hall is a Jungian psychotherapist and widely read author of archetypal studies particularly on gender issues and cultural mythology. Residing in the Twin Cities for thirty-nine years, she has practiced archetypal psychology since 1972 while maintaining a career as a mythopoetic writer, independent lecturer, workshop leader, consultant, and theatre artist. Her work in recent years as a research dramaturg for Archipelago and content developer for new plays evolved out of participation in Pantheatre's Myth & Theatre Festivals. Hall is a volunteer case consultant for the Center for Victims of Torture in Minneapolis, a Pacifica Graduate Institute adjunct faculty and thesis advisor, an advisor for the Ashlar Institute on trauma issues, an advisor for Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, an advisor for Pantheatre, a member of the Walker Arts Center Producers' Council and friend of Rain Taxi Review of books. In 2011 she was a featured guest at These Women!, a conference in Santa Barbara at the Institute for Cultural Change that was named after her book titled Those Women (1988) republished as Dreaming in Red (2005).
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