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Dante's Dream - A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach (Hardcover)
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Dante's Dream - A Jungian Psychoanalytical Approach (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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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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