Jungian Analysis of Mythopoetic Literature
How is one to behave constructively when outer-world forces of clear understanding, reason, wisdom, darkness, destruction, and folly clash with the inner-world psychological struggle between what Carl Jung would call Higher Self and Shadow? Barbara Shocket and David Eisner explore these topics through a series of ongoing courses that address Jungian perspectives on ancient literary, philosophical, and psychologically clairvoyant writers.
Unbridled power, unrequited love, fury, revenge, madness and creativity—these are some to the themes expressed through the all-seeing and remarkably discerning eye of the Ancient Greek dramatist Euripides. In this class we will interactively read three plays by Euripides, experiencing the passions of the human heart in dealing with the complexities of free will, destiny, and life’s ageless conflicts. “Euripides, Ten Plays,” translated by Paul Roche, and published by Signet Classics, is the text students should bring to class for interactive reading.
