Persephone: a post-modern reading of a traditional myth

Liliana Liviano Wahba, Ph.D., (Brazil) is a Jungian analyst with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Post‐Doctorate at the University of São Paulo Medical School; she is member of the Paulista Academy of Psychology and the Director of Psychology of the Institute Ser em Cena: Teatro de Afásicos (Being on Scene: Theatre for Aphasics). She teaches at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo Centre of Jungian Studies. Her main focus of research is creativity, culture and psychological development. She published the books Camille Claudel: Criação e Loucura (Camille Claudel: Creation and Madness), Médico e paciente: é proibido amar (Doctor and patient: it is forbidden to love) and is a co‐author of O Grafite e a Psique de São Paulo: Metáforas da Cidade (Graffitti and the Psyche of São Paulo: Metaphors of the City).