{"id":47691,"date":"2020-11-09T15:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T23:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsbs.wpengine.com\/?post_type=product&p=47691"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T05:44:25","slug":"archetypal-imagination","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/rudolfsteinerbookstore.com\/product\/archetypal-imagination\/","title":{"rendered":"Archetypal Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Archetypal Imagination: Glimpses of the Gods in Life and Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

“When the early Greek philosophers inquired into the nature of things, the world, and their own experience, they asked: \u201cWhat are the archai?\u201d What is the ultimate nature of things? They were not asking for the final explanation, they went beyond explanation to logos, to myth. They searched not only for the ultimate physical particle but also for a poetic cosmology, where flux and strife could be taken as ultimate constituents.” (from the Introduction by Thomas Moore)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This unique book is about freeing psychology’s poetic imagination from the dead weight of unconscious assumptions about the soul. Whether we think of the soul scientifically or medically, behaviorally or in terms of inner development, all of us are used to thinking of it in an individual context, as something personal. In this book, however, we are asked to consider psychology from a truly transpersonal perspective as a cultural, universal-human phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Cobb teaches us to look at the world as a record of the soul’s struggles to awaken and as the soul’s poetry. From this perspective, the real basis of the mind is poetic. Beauty, love, and creativity are as much instincts of the soul as sexuality or hunger. Cobb shows us how artists and mystics can teach us the meaning of love, death, and beauty, if only we can awaken to their creations. The exemplars here are Dante, Rumi, Rilke, Munch, Lorca, Schumann, and Tarkovsky.<\/p>\n

COVER:\u00a0Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus<\/em>\u00a0(1900), John William Waterhouse<\/p>\n

C O N T E N T S<\/b>:<\/p>\n

Introduction by Thomas Moore
\nForeword<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Echoes of an Imaginal Bell<\/b>:
\n\u2014 Reverberations of Andrei Tarkofsky\u2019s Anrei Rublev
\n2.\u00a0The Morbid and the Beautiful<\/b>:
\n\u2014 Edvard Munch \u2013 Painter of the Modern Soul Life
\n3.\u00a0Dionysos and Duende<\/b>:
\n\u2014 Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca \u2013 Torero of the Imagination
\n4.\u00a0The Cast of Masks in the Life and Work of Robert Schumann<\/b>:
\n\u2014 Part I: The Genius of Culture and the Culture of Genius
\n\u2014 Part II: Butterflies and Sphinxes
\n5.\u00a0The Fires of Eros and the Alchemy of Seduction<\/b>:
\n\u2014 Notes toward a Poetics of Love \u2013 A Sonata in Five Movements
\n6.\u00a0Persephone<\/b>:
\n\u2014 Midwife and muse of Metempsychosis: An Undertaking in Psychopoetics
\n7.\u00a0Who Is behind Archetypal Psychology?<\/b>
\n\u2014 An Imaginary Inquiry<\/p>\n

Notes<\/p>\n

About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n

Noel Cobb<\/strong>\u00a0(1938\u20132015) traveled widely in his early years, both geographically and intellectually, in search of a way of thinking adequate to his own rich and abounding imagination. His odyssey brought him to working with R. D Laing, becoming a Jungian analyst, and developing, with other contemporary thinkers, the re-visioning of psychology and culture through archetypal psychology. With his partner Eva Loewe, he cofounded The London Convivium for Archetypal Studies and published numerous books, including\u00a0Prospero\u2019s Island: The Secret Alchemy at the Heart of The Tempest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thomas Moore<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Care of the Soul,<\/i>\u00a0which spent forty-six weeks on the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestseller list, and fifteen other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating the soul in every aspect of life. He has been a monk, a musician, a university professor, and a psychotherapist, and today he lectures widely on holistic medicine, spirituality, psychotherapy, and ecology. He lectures frequently in Ireland and has a special love of Irish culture. He has Ph. D. in religion from Syracuse University and has won several awards for his work, including an honorary doctorate from Lesley University and the Humanitarian Award from Einstein Medical School of Yeshiva University. He also writes fiction and music and often works with his wife, artist and yoga instructor, Hari Kirin. He writes regular columns for\u00a0Resurgence<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Spirituality & Health<\/i>\u00a0and has recently published\u00a0A Life at Work<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Writing in the Sand.<\/i>\u00a0He is a patron of Re-Vision, a London center of spirituality and counseling, and on the board of Turning Point, a bereavement counselors training program in Dublin, Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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