Sacred Disobedience - A Jungian Analysis of the Saga of Pan and the Devil

This book traces the Greek Goat God Pan who became distorted into the image of the Devil in early Christianity. It offers a Jungian analysis of the repression, distortion, recovery, and reintegration of what Jung calls the "Shadow," as represented by the Goat God.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Captions
Introduction
Chapter 1 Jungian Theory: The Archetype of the "Shadow"
Chapter 2 Unio Mystica: Pan the Ancient Goat God
Chapter 3 Coincidentia Oppositorum: The Renunciate Trajectory the Smooth and the Rough
Chapter 4 Complexio Oppositorum: The Dystopian Trajectory
Chapter 5 Born From a Divided Cosmos, Christians Renounce the World
Chapter 6 Return of the Repressed
Chapter 7 Coniunctio Oppositorum: Sympathy for the Devil
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Further Reading
About the Author

About the author

Sharon L. Coggan is associate professor, Clinical Teaching Track at the University of Colorado Denver and serves as Director of the Religious Studies Program, which she created.

Summary

This book traces the Greek Goat God Pan who became distorted into the image of the Devil in early Christianity. It offers a Jungian analysis of the repression, distortion, recovery, and reintegration of what Jung calls the “Shadow,” as represented by the Goat God.

Product details

• Authors: Sharon L. Coggan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9781793606549
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-654-9
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Psychology, RELIGION / Ancient, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Angelology & Demonology, Religion: general, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Ancient religions & mythologies