Dante’s Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach
Author:   Gwenyth E. Hood
Publisher:   De Gruyter
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9781501518225


Pages:   196
Publication Date:   05 July 2021
Format:   Hardback
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Dante’s Dream: A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach


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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 exploring his personal dream-images and connecting them to the past. Dante Alighieri presents his Divine Comedy as a dream-vision, carefully establishing the date at which it came to him (Good Friday, 1300), and maintaining the perspective of that time and place, throughout the work, upon unfolding history. Modern readers will therefore welcome a Jungian psychoanalytical approach, which can trace both instinctual and spiritual impulses in the human psyche. Some of Dante’s innovations (admission of virtuous pagans to Limbo) and individualized scenes (meeting personal friends in the afterlife) more likely spring from unconscious inspiration than conscious didactic intent. For modern readers, a focus on Dante’s personal dream-journey may offer the best way into his poem.

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Author:   Gwenyth E. Hood
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Weight:   0.413kg
ISBN:  

9781501518225


ISBN 10:   1501518224
Pages:   196
Publication Date:   05 July 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Abbreviations Introduction 1. Dante, Dreams, Jung, and His Composition Process 2. Young Dante and His Contemporaries Interpret Dreams 3. The Anima and Divine Eros: Beatrice, Lady Philosophy, and Gemma Donati 4. Three Beasts or Four in the Dark Wood: Dante and the Shadow of His Civilization 5. Neutrals, Acheron, Limbo, Infants, and Virtuous Pagans 6. Limbo and Change 7. Shadows in Upper Hell: Francesca and Paolo, Ciacco, and Filippo Argenti 8. Deeper Shadows: Brunetto Latini and Ugolino of Pisa 9. From Satan to Cato to Christ: Virgil and the Reconciliation of Reason 10. Beatrice, the Heavenly Spheres, and the Rose of Paradise Bibliography Index

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Gwenyth E. Hood, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, USA.

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