Dionysus in Exile: On the Repression of the Body and Emotion

Lopez-Pedraza, Raphael

ISBN 10: 1888602104 / ISBN 13: 9781888602104

Published by Chiron Publications, 2013

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Synopsis:

The internationally renowned Jungian analyst Lopez-Pedraza diagnoses the psychological illness at the core of modern society—the loss of embodied soulfulness in individual’s lives. In this study of the Greek god Dionysus, he offers insight for a cure. Dismemberment and cannibalism, Prometheus and Titanic nature, mystical experience, the communal aspect of Dionysiac worship, jazz, flamenco, and bullfighting are among the many twists and turns taken in this essay that winds its way through issues of the body and emotion to open hidden doors for psychotherapy and to cast new light on post-modern humanity.

Rafael Lopez-Pedraza was born in Cuba in 1920 and later settled in Caracas, Venezuela.  In 1962, he moved to Zurich, where for the next eleven years he studied analytical psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute. He returned to Caracas and opened a private practice. He is a member of the international Association for Analytical Psychology and the author of Cultural Anxiety, Hermes and His Children and Anselm Kiefer: The Psychology of "After the Catastrophe.”

About the Author: Rafael Lopez-Pedraza was born in Cuba and studied at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. He is currently a lecturer in mythology at the Central University of Venezuela, where he also conducts a private practice. His books include Hermes and His Children and Cultural Anxiety.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dionysus in Exile: On the Repression of the ...
Publisher: Chiron Publications
Publication Date: 2013
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good