Orpheus and Eurydice in Myth, History, and Analytical Psychology - Loss, Longing, and Self-Awareness

This fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth. In the last two thousand years, it has captivated the imagination of successive ages.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: Orpheus, or Impossible Longing 1. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as Moral Philosophy: Virgil's Epyllion 2. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as Psychological Process: Ovid's 'Song of Orpheus' 3. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Classical Philosophy, and Christian Allegory: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 4. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and the Exploration of Love: The Renaissance and Early Baroque 5. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and Social, Personal, and Political Concerns: The Late Baroque and the Age of Sensibility 6. Romantic Identification with Orpheus: The Nineteenth Century Part 2: Eurydice, or Unbearable Loss 7. Orpheus and Eurydice, Dissociative Tendencies, and Self-Transformation: Early Twentieth-Century Modernism 8. Orpheus and Eurydice, Dysfunctional Times, and the Need to Testify: The Second World War 9. Orpheus as Embodiment of the Creative Impulse: The 1950s 10. Orpheus Trapped Inside a Tragic Myth: 1960 to 1995 11. Orpheus and Eurydice, Confronting Reality and Self-Awareness: 1995 to 2020

About the author

Terence Dawson is an independent scholar, following a career teaching English and European literature at universities in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and Singapore.

Summary

This fascinating study shows how the minor Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice came to have a more persistent and varied impact on Western culture than any other Greek myth. In the last two thousand years, it has captivated the imagination of successive ages.

Product details

• Authors: Terence Dawson, Terence (Independent Scholar Dawson, Dawson Terence
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032857312
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285731-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Trauma & shock, Psychotherapy, Literature & literary studies, Trauma and shock, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Analytical and Jungian psychology, Analytical & Jungian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Biography, Literature and Literary studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian