scholarly journals Hermaphrodite as Healing Image:

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Fidyk
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Development ◽  
Greek Myth ◽  
Inner Child ◽  
The Erotic ◽  
Mythic Imagination

This exploration considers the question: What healing and transformation might these image-makers bring to education? Through hermeneutic tracking, a telling of the Greek myth of Hermaphrodite’s birth lays the background. Upon this scene, the alchemical process of psychological development is described wherein a bridge is made to the education and the ways that it might come to be informed through therapeutic practices. Here amplification of the images of Hermes and Aphrodite are traced to revision the ways teachers might embrace apeironic learning through a vibrant relationship to the child – Hermaphrodite, the inner child and the actual child in the classroom – and to move toward a more differentiated and androgynous consciousness. Tact, love, care, freedom, eros and the erotic play, embodiment, joy and ethics are some of the characteristics that appear as curative for education reimagined through mythic imagination. 

Mythic Imagination Today

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-141
Author(s):  
Terry Marks-Tarlow
Keyword(s):  
Fractal Geometry ◽  
Systematic Observation ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Social Brain ◽  
Greek Myth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiple Cultures ◽  
Complexity Theories ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Mythic Imagination

Abstract Mythic Imagination Today is an illustrated guide to the interpenetration of mythology and science throughout the ages. This publication brings alive our collective need for story to guide the rules, roles, and relationships of everyday life. Whereas mythology is born primarily of perception and imagination, science emerges from systematic observation and experimentation. Both disciplines arise from endless curiosity about the workings of the Universe combined with creative urges to transform inner and outer worlds. Both disciplines are located within open neural wiring that gives rise to uniquely human capacities for learning, memory, and metaphor. Explored are the origins of story within the social brain; mythmakers and myths from multiple cultures; and how contemporary sciences of chaos and complexity theories and fractal geometry dovetail with ancient wisdom. The ancient Greek myth of Psyche and Eros is unpacked in detail—origins of the very concepts of ‘psyche’ and ‘psychology’.

The Use of Marian Chace’s Technique Combined With in the Depth Dance Therapy Derived from the Jungian Model

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 197-203
Author(s):  
Penny Lewis†
Keyword(s):  
Child Abuse ◽  
Object Relations ◽  
Dance Therapy ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Boundary Formation ◽  
Inner Child ◽  
Spiritual Consciousness ◽  
Survival Mechanisms

Abstract. From my training with Marian Chace came much of the roots of my employment of dance therapy in my work. The use of empathic movement reflection assisted me in the development of the technique of somatic countertransference ( Lewis, 1984 , 1988 , 1992 ) and in the choreography of the symbiotic phase in object relations ( Lewis, 1983 , 1987a , 1988 , 1990 , 1992 ). Marian provided the foundation for assistance in separation and individuation through the use of techniques which stimulated skin (body) and external (kinespheric) boundary formation. Reciprocal embodied response and the use of thematic imaginal improvisations provided the foundation for the embodied personification of intrapsychic phenomena such as the internalized patterns, inner survival mechanisms, addictions, and the inner child. Chace’s model assisted in the development of structures for the remembering, re-experiencing, and healing of child abuse as well as the rechoreography of object relations. Finally, Marian Chace’s use of synchronistic group postural rhythmic body action provided access to the transformative power of ritual in higher stages of individuation and spiritual consciousness.

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