Introduction: Getting Started with C. G. Jung, James Hillman and Literature. The Feminine, Dionysus and Transdisciplinary. Dionysus Ignored or How to Save Jung from The Red Book. Dionysus Remembered or Saving The Red Book from Jung. Dionysus and Magic: The Zoe of ‘Active Imagination’ for/as ‘Close Reading’. Dionysus, Dismembering and the Sublime: ‘Feminine’ Creativity in Destruction in Jung and Lacan. Dionysus Liberated?: Revisioning Psychology (and Literature) with James Hillman. Conclusion: Dionysus Reborn in Psychology and Literature.
Susan Rowland is Chair of MA Engaged Humanities at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and was previously Professor of English and Jungian Studies at the University of Greenwich UK. She is author of Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), Jung as a Writer (2005) and The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Complexity Evolution and Jung (2012). She teaches in Jung, gender and literary theory.
Perhaps it is a staple of a living organic mythology that
periodically it be remembered anew, complete with all the
divinities that inhabit and inhibit it as the myth continues to
flourish. Susan Rowland’s fine lyrical study returns to recalibrate
the value of two related schools of a psychology of soul by opening
them to a conversation with the mytho-poetic imagination. Her own
mythodology is framed by the god Dionysus, both a force and a
presence who dismembers, remembers and in so doing engenders new
ways of imagining what we thought we knew. Her original work dares
us to enter a cross-disciplinary discourse that awakens us to the
familiar. - Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D.; author of Riting Myth,
Mythic Writing and Creases in Culture: Essays Towards a Poetics of
Depth‘In this new work Susan Rowland has given us a true gem. One
of the foremost contemporary scholars in Jungian studies, Rowland
has produced another remarkably engaging, erudite volume that
continues to take depth psychological approaches out of the
consulting room and into a larger world. The intersection of
literature and myth being woven here is also artfully integrated
into the emerging holistic paradigm associated with complexity
studies. Rowland creatively advances Jungian studies revealing the
depths of its transdisciplinary possibilities through her
exploration of archetypal themes manifesting as Dionysian.’ - Joe
Cambray, Ph.D., Provost, Pacifica Graduate Institute;
Past-President, IAAP‘That Jung was an intellectual in the tradition
of Nietzsche, who dismembered his relation to the academy in order
to create, in equally epigrammatic fashion, an intuitive critique
of the very foundations of our understanding, not just of the texts
by which we live, but of the way our lives have become texts, has
been crucially grasped by Jung’s most antischolastic follower,
James Hillman. It is Susan Rowland, however, who makes good on the
claim that this method of analysis has a future within the rigorous
discipline of literary studies. One can only hope that she will be
read with as open a mind as she displays in these well-wrought,
lapidary chapters. Refocusing literary theory through a Dionysian
rather than Apollonian lens, she identifies as her subject the
vivifying experience of reading itself.’ - John Beebe, author of
Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The reservoir of
consciousness (Routledge, 2017)'Susan Rowland is herself a paragon
of interdisciplinary scholarship, who has brought Jungian depth
psychology into critical, creative relationship with literary
studies, gender studies, cultural studies, eco-criticism, and much
more. In the present book she uses the myth of Dionysus,
importantly culminating in the god’s marriage to the mortal
Ariadne, as a zone of energy and awareness from which to argue
against disciplinary and epistemological hegemonies and the
cultural dismemberment they perpetuate. Performing as well as
comprehending psychological insights from Jung and Hillman, Rowland
champions transdisciplinarity, vitality, and the multiplicity and
open-endedness of knowledge and being.' - Professor Roderick Main,
University of Essex'Susan Rowland's new study expands on a
Dionysian concept as she defines it toward a transcendent
discussion of genre, aligning it to the god, and finessing her
theme that Jung was writing novels, the highest form for her, and
epitomising the feminine. Establishing this and demonstrating it in
her characteristic and brilliant close-up analyses of text, which
is her forte, makes this is a satisfying and enigmatic work.’ -
Leslie Gardner PhD, co-founder of international literary agency
Artellus, and founder member of IAJS, Fellow at the Centre
Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK“In an early
example of this kind of transdisciplinary method, Rowland imagines
the complementary nature of close reading and active imagination.
Despite the supposed scientific nature of active imagination and
the literary source of close reading, she finds both to be
complementary means of interpretation, ways of awakening the soul
buried within the data.” - Richard M. Gray, PhD, Research Director
for the Research and Recognition Project, Faculty of the Touro
School of Osteopathic Medicine
Perhaps it is a staple of a living organic mythology that
periodically it be remembered anew, complete with all the
divinities that inhabit and inhibit it as the myth continues to
flourish. Susan Rowland’s fine lyrical study returns to recalibrate
the value of two related schools of a psychology of soul by opening
them to a conversation with the mytho-poetic imagination. Her own
mythodology is framed by the god Dionysus, both a force and a
presence who dismembers, remembers and in so doing engenders new
ways of imagining what we thought we knew. Her original work dares
us to enter a cross-disciplinary discourse that awakens us to the
familiar. - Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D.; author of Riting Myth,
Mythic Writing and Creases in Culture: Essays Towards a Poetics of
Depth‘In this new work Susan Rowland has given us a true gem. One
of the foremost contemporary scholars in Jungian studies, Rowland
has produced another remarkably engaging, erudite volume that
continues to take depth psychological approaches out of the
consulting room and into a larger world. The intersection of
literature and myth being woven here is also artfully integrated
into the emerging holistic paradigm associated with complexity
studies. Rowland creatively advances Jungian studies revealing the
depths of its transdisciplinary possibilities through her
exploration of archetypal themes manifesting as Dionysian.’ - Joe
Cambray, Ph.D., Provost, Pacifica Graduate Institute;
Past-President, IAAP‘That Jung was an intellectual in the tradition
of Nietzsche, who dismembered his relation to the academy in order
to create, in equally epigrammatic fashion, an intuitive critique
of the very foundations of our understanding, not just of the texts
by which we live, but of the way our lives have become texts, has
been crucially grasped by Jung’s most antischolastic follower,
James Hillman. It is Susan Rowland, however, who makes good on the
claim that this method of analysis has a future within the rigorous
discipline of literary studies. One can only hope that she will be
read with as open a mind as she displays in these well-wrought,
lapidary chapters. Refocusing literary theory through a Dionysian
rather than Apollonian lens, she identifies as her subject the
vivifying experience of reading itself.’ - John Beebe, author of
Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The reservoir of
consciousness (Routledge, 2017)'Susan Rowland is herself a paragon
of interdisciplinary scholarship, who has brought Jungian depth
psychology into critical, creative relationship with literary
studies, gender studies, cultural studies, eco-criticism, and much
more. In the present book she uses the myth of Dionysus,
importantly culminating in the god’s marriage to the mortal
Ariadne, as a zone of energy and awareness from which to argue
against disciplinary and epistemological hegemonies and the
cultural dismemberment they perpetuate. Performing as well as
comprehending psychological insights from Jung and Hillman, Rowland
champions transdisciplinarity, vitality, and the multiplicity and
open-endedness of knowledge and being.' - Professor Roderick Main,
University of Essex'Susan Rowland's new study expands on a
Dionysian concept as she defines it toward a transcendent
discussion of genre, aligning it to the god, and finessing her
theme that Jung was writing novels, the highest form for her, and
epitomising the feminine. Establishing this and demonstrating it in
her characteristic and brilliant close-up analyses of text, which
is her forte, makes this is a satisfying and enigmatic work.’ -
Leslie Gardner PhD, co-founder of international literary agency
Artellus, and founder member of IAJS, Fellow at the Centre
Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK
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