Jungian Perspectives on Rebirth and Renewal

This collection of papers is inspired by the themes evoked by the image of the phoenix and by Jung s travels to the USA, India and Africa in the 1920s and 1930s.

Section 1: The Phoenix as symbol 1. Phoenix Rising: A Comparative Study of the Phoenix Symbol as a Goal of Alchemical Work and the Individuation Process Section 2: Native America 2. Re-establishing Dialogue between the Western Psyche and the Psyche-Left-Behind 3. Seeing the forest for the Trees: Birthing Symbolic Life Section 3: Synchronistic symbols as liminal place/space 4. The Burden of Modernity: Three 'Takes' on the Snake and Recombinant Visionary Mythology 5. Rebirthing Biblical Myth: 'The Poisonwood Bible' as Visionary Art Section 4: India 6. Life's Threads: C. G. Jung's 1938 and 1944 'Orissa' Awakenings 7. Parama Pada Sopanam: The Divine Game of Rebirth and Renewal 8. Responses to a Film 'Monsoon Wedding' about Integrity Section 5: Primordial archetypal feminine 9. Remembering Eve's Transgression as Rebirth 10. Symbolic Renewal; Renewal of symbols, the Rebirth of the Trickster Goddesses in Mysteries Section 6: Ancestral memories: familial constellations of rebirth and renewal 11. Adam and Eve as a Kleinian Narrative of Infancy 12. Symbols of Creation in Myth and Dreams: Directive, Orientative, Regenerative 13. Trickster, Trauma and Transformation; Vicissitudes of Late Motherhood Section 7: Eco-psychological, synchronistic carriers of rebirth and renewal 14. Archetypal Images in Japanese Anime Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) 15. Prometheus in Our Midst: The Planet's Overdependence on oxygen 16. Artic Calving: Birthing A New Vision of the Earth through the Symbol of Ice Section 8: Mythopoetic, psychological dimensions of rebirth and renewal 17. Visionary and Psychological: Jung's 1925 seminar and H. Rider Haggard's 'She' 18. A Native American Tale within Miss Frank Miller's Fantasies- How The Psyche Guides