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Root, Ileen Brennan.

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Redeeming the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Medusa Function of psyche.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Redeeming the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Medusa Function of psyche./
作者:	Root, Ileen Brennan.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2007,
面頁冊數:	238 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International70-06B.
標題:	Classical studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3334696
ISBN:	9780549876618

Redeeming the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Medusa Function of psyche.
Root, Ileen Brennan.

Redeeming the Gorgon: Reclaiming the Medusa Function of psyche. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2007 - 238 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 70-06, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2007.

Serpent-haired Gorgon Medusa is generally conceived of as a figure of irredeemable evil. Yet a survey of the vast body of Gorgon Medusa myth, literature, and imagery, since Homer circa the 7th or 8th century BCE, reveals a far more complex iconic entity. Medusa, whose name means Queen in archaic Greek, appears variously as a hideous monster, a beautiful seductress, and as a symbol of feminist empowerment. This dissertation is a theoretical study in Archetypal Psychology seeking an understanding of the role of the Gorgon within psyche. Embarking on the premise that the classic myth presents a fragmented, distorted version of Medusa's mythos, this dissertation seeks to uncover her origins and to theorize what archetypal energy Medusa might have represented that has been excised from psyche. In addition to surveying classical texts, I examined Gorgon artifacts at Greek Mystery sites at Eleusis, Delphi, and Epidaurus and uncovered Medusa's possible greater divine origins. For instance, Apollodorus, circa first century CE, relates that Athena gives Medusa's blood to Apollo's son Asklepios, God of Healing, as the source of his power of death and resurrection. Further, Medusa often appears on Greek Goddess Athena's breast, seemingly as a double-faced shadow sister. I trace Athena/Medusa's possible joint source in the Neolithic Serpent/Avian Goddess of Birth, Death and Resurrection. The Serpent Goddess represented the chthonic energies of embodied regeneration, and the winged Bird Goddess represented the transcendent energies. Athena/Medusa thus could be viewed as representing the entire cycle of transfiguration-the wholeness of human consciousness. With the beheading of Medusa, a crucial component of psyche was lost. Iconography reveals Medusa's deep entanglement with shamanism. Therefore, if Athena represents rational Logos cognition, then Medusa could represent the supra-ordinary potentiality of consciousness. I have term this decapitated aspect of psyche the Medusa Function. Basing the Medusa Function on the altered perception of shamanism, I further explored what the suppression of this aspect of psyche means to human cognitive wholeness and how it could be reclaimed.

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