Dante's dream : a Jungian psychoanalytical approach /

Archetypal images, Carl Jung believed, when elaborated in tales and ceremonies, shape culture's imagination and behavior. Unfortunately, such cultural images can become stale and lose their power over the mind. But an artist or mystic can refresh and revive a culture's imagination by explo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hood, Gwenyth (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : Walter De Gruyter, [2021]
Series:Research in medieval and early modern culture ; 30.
Studies in medieval and early modern culture ; 76.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dante, Dreams, Jung, and His Composition Process
  • Young Dante and His Contemporaries Interpret Dreams
  • The Anima and Divine Eros: Beatrice, Lady Philosophy, and Gemma Donati
  • Three Beasts or Four in the Dark Wood: Dante and the Shadow of His Civilization
  • Neutrals, Acheron, Limbo, Infants, and Virtuous Pagans
  • Limbo and Change
  • Shadows in Upper Hell: Francesca and Paolo, Ciacco, and Filippo Argenti
  • Deeper Shadows: Brunetto Latini and Ugolino of Pisa
  • From Satan, to Cato, to Christ: Virgil and the Reconciliation of Reason
  • Beatrice, the Heavenly Spheres, and the Rose of Paradise.