Visitations of Dionysus

In this workshop, we will explore the many-splendored nature of the Dionysus-Pluto archetype, surveying its evolution over time and providing vivid illustrations of the varieties of Plutonic-Dionysian experience drawn from film, music, and comedy. Because discerning the archetypes is not just a conceptual task of the intellect but requires our full humanity, with all our faculties working together—emotional, imaginative, aesthetic, somatic, intuitive—the arts are especially helpful in revealing the planetary gods in action. Video and audio clips of artistic performances will be introduced to serve as windows into some of the many ways these primordial energies can express themselves in different individuals and in different eras.

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