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An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and
psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just
the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem,
social construction, and symptom.
The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by
providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded
body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights
from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis
Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased,
tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only an individual
phenomenon but, in the hands of the poet, a cultural symptom, a
place of suffering, as well as a way of seeing and ordering the
experience of the one who is wounded.
Dante has it right: we are on more than a journey; we are on a
pilgrimage. Author Dennis Patrick Slattery, who has been teaching
Dante's works for more than twenty years, believes that our life
stories are embedded in the journey of this pilgrim. In "Day-to-Day
Dante, " Slattery presents passages from Dante Alighieri's
fourteenth-century poem "The Divine Comedy" to assist you in
searching for the core elements of your personal myth. "Day-to-Day
Dante" is divided into 365 entries and reflections so you may
explore and meditate on one page per day for a year. Each entry and
reflection is followed by a writing meditation to help you arrive
at your own insights about your personal travels and travails.This
examination of Dante's pilgrimage will help you deepen the
understanding of yourself and the larger political, social, and
religious worlds. Through "Day-to-Day Dante" you can connect more
deeply with your own narrative, following Dante's journey from out
of a dark wood to a vision of the transcendent.
This collection of essays, written over a period of years,
entertains the shared place of psyche and poetics. Dr. Slattery has
explored the manner in which the psyche is poetic and how poetry is
deeply psycho-mythical. Influenced in part by the archetypal
psychologist James Hillman's idea of the "poetic basis of mind"
that comprises the soul's foundation, Slattery's writing moves into
the interactive field in which myth is the ground for both psyche
and poetry. The essays develop a further understanding of what has
been called mythopoiesis, the fundamental myth-making and shaping
capacity of the soul.
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Simon's Crossing (Hardcover)
Charles William Asher, Dennis Patrick Slattery
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Enter the biblically historic world of Simon of Cyrene, where a
world of grief, revenge, and Dennis Patrick Slattery and tender
devotion awaits. There, families are torn apart, marauding soldiers
enact their violent ways, and random events suddenly disrupt life.
Along this journey there will be encounters with Pontius Pilate,
Veronica, Mary, and the sons of Simon, Rufus and Alexander, as they
seek to grasp the mystery of a compassionate Nazarene, serenely
putting into practice the kingdom of God.
Forced to carry the cross of Jesus, Simon of Cyrene, a little
known biblical figure, reluctantly yields to his task. At the same
time, Simon struggles with personal loss and a fiery desire for
revenge. In Simon's story, the vulnerability of our own journeys is
laid bare as we cross paths with a simple wooden cross and a
redemptive twist of fate.
In Simon's Crossing, this ordinary man, from Cyrene, steps
boldly out of the pages of the Bible. He senses that his own life
depends on the Nazarene staggering just ahead of him. Persuaded by
sacrificial love, we too discover what it is like to cross over
into the imaginal power of a story well-told, where salvation lies
close at hand. Simon's story compels us to carry on as well.
Dante has it right: we are on more than a journey; we are on a
pilgrimage. Author Dennis Patrick Slattery, who has been teaching
Dante's works for more than twenty years, believes that our life
stories are embedded in the journey of this pilgrim. In "Day-to-Day
Dante, " Slattery presents passages from Dante Alighieri's
fourteenth-century poem "The Divine Comedy" to assist you in
searching for the core elements of your personal myth. "Day-to-Day
Dante" is divided into 365 entries and reflections so you may
explore and meditate on one page per day for a year. Each entry and
reflection is followed by a writing meditation to help you arrive
at your own insights about your personal travels and travails.This
examination of Dante's pilgrimage will help you deepen the
understanding of yourself and the larger political, social, and
religious worlds. Through "Day-to-Day Dante" you can connect more
deeply with your own narrative, following Dante's journey from out
of a dark wood to a vision of the transcendent.
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Simon's Crossing (Paperback)
Charles William Asher, Dennis Patrick Slattery
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R408
R345
Discovery Miles 3 450
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Enter the biblically historic world of Simon of Cyrene, where a
world of grief, revenge, and Dennis Patrick Slattery and tender
devotion awaits. There, families are torn apart, marauding soldiers
enact their violent ways, and random events suddenly disrupt life.
Along this journey there will be encounters with Pontius Pilate,
Veronica, Mary, and the sons of Simon, Rufus and Alexander, as they
seek to grasp the mystery of a compassionate Nazarene, serenely
putting into practice the kingdom of God.
Forced to carry the cross of Jesus, Simon of Cyrene, a little
known biblical figure, reluctantly yields to his task. At the same
time, Simon struggles with personal loss and a fiery desire for
revenge. In Simon's story, the vulnerability of our own journeys is
laid bare as we cross paths with a simple wooden cross and a
redemptive twist of fate.
In Simon's Crossing, this ordinary man, from Cyrene, steps
boldly out of the pages of the Bible. He senses that his own life
depends on the Nazarene staggering just ahead of him. Persuaded by
sacrificial love, we too discover what it is like to cross over
into the imaginal power of a story well-told, where salvation lies
close at hand. Simon's story compels us to carry on as well.
"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's
astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These
disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of
imagining."
--Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social
Thought, Georgetown University.
Elizabeth Fergus-Jean, Ph.D., is an artist and professor at
Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio and faculty in the
Humanities Program, Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her artwork
appears on numerous book and journal covers.
As Dennis Patrick Slattery's writing shows, the very stuff of the
great traditions is life itself, and the hurly-burly of current
culture is the ground in which tradition thrives. Slattery's
analyses are keen and thoughtful, often scholarly, and always
deeply spiritual. But they are better for being a bit pugnacious
and intimate and virile. They give evidence of a life lived in
earnest, one in which nothing is walled off into a category but all
enters into the whole that is the mysterious grounding of the
person. Foreword by Louise Cowan, Author of "The Fugitive Group"
Series Editor: "The Terrain of Comedy," "The Epic Cosmos," and "The
Tragic Abyss," Founder: Institute of Philosophic Studies, The
University of Dallas; the Teachers' Academy at the Dallas Institute
of Humanities and Culture
Developed in the spirit of C.G. Jung, and extended by the work of
James Hillman, Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field grows
directly from the soil of the Romantic Movement of the 19th
century, itself a rebellion against the legacy of Enlightenment
fundamentalism, which emphasized the literal reality of the world,
and feasted on Measurement and the quantification of all knowledge.
This book presents contributions from different authors covering
the mythical basis for different religions. It also shows how
psychology and philosopy have been influenced by myths.
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