Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche

Virginia Beane Rutter, M.A., M.S　and　Thomas Singer, M.D.　are both Jungian psychoanalysts affiliated with the C. G. Jung Institute in San Francisco who have life-long connections to Greek culture. 　They are co-authors and editors of a previous volume of　Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche　which　originated from the first Nomikos Conference in Santorini.　Beane Rutter　studies ancient myths and rites of passage through art, archaeology, and psychology and writes about the archetype of initiation as it appears in the clinical work of individuals today. Singer　has produced and written multiple publications that focus on ‘the cultural complex’. He currently serves as President of the National Board of ARAS (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism).

‘The Ancient Greece – Modern Psyche conferences, established by Virginia Beane Rutter and Thomas Singer at Santorini, have quickly become an essential stage for dialogue between classical Greek studies and contemporary analytical psychology. In this brilliant collection of essays, the founding editors bring together seven thinkers who, with lucid double vision, weigh images of the Greek soul with scholarly precision and assess their life-and-death implications for the modern psyche.’ - Craig E. Stephenson, author of Possession: Jung’s Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche (Routledge, 2009) and Anteros: A Forgotten Myth (Routledge, 2011).

• Beane Rutter and Singer, Introduction. San Roque, Dionysos, How It All Began: A Ritual Invocation for the 2012 Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche Conference. Beane Rutter, The Hero Who Would Not Die: Warrior and Goddess in Ancient Greek and Modern Men. Kalsched, Beauty and the Psychoanalytic Enterprise: Reflections on a Rarely Acknowledged Dimension of the Healing Process. San Roque, Introduction to the Kore Story/Persephone’s Dog and The Kore Story/Persephone’s Dog. Trousdell, Death & Necessity at the Threshold of New Life. Cashford, How Hermes and Apollo Came to Love Each Other in the Homeric Hymn To Hermes: Imagination and Form in Ancient Greece and Modern Psyche. Centomani Rutter, Penelope Scapes. van Loben Sels, Dreaming in Place: Santorini, Greece. San Roque Travelling Ariadne: A Romance.