The ecological unconscious was articulated as primary to ecopsychology originally by Theodore Roszak; yet understanding how its contents and psychodynamics inform human approaches of relating to habitat has not been a central concern within the field. Confronting this complexity…
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Jungian psychological literature conventionally focuses upon the mother, the father, and the son as the three primary archetypal religious and cultural symbols in Western culture. Little attention has been paid to the role of the daughter, particularly in Judeo-Christian sacred …
This interdisciplinary, archetypal study considers the numerous adaptation processes and techniques involved in the transposition of the fairy tale from one medium to another, exploring post-2000 adult adaptations and appropriations of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ across a variety o…
Jungian and archetypal psychology's theoretical basis is of working with images that emerge from the unconscious through the exploration of imagination. In this context, imagination is a tool utilized exclusively for bringing the world of the unconscious into consciousness. What…
This thesis examines examples of character archetypes in films of modern war. War films throughout the history of the genre have relied on a particular characterization of the American soldier/warrior to garner support for various war efforts, and to create and maintain a myth o…
Epic Explorations in Opera-The Hero’s Overture, is an original inquiry into the mythic patterns found in stories as they relate to six operas in this analysis. Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman, Gounod’s …
The subject of my research is the 1891 play Salomé, by Oscar Wilde and my thesis addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a f…
This thesis examines the problem of addiction as a biopsychosocial-spiritual archetypal disease and asks: What is an interactive, exciting, and robust intervention that can be used as a technique for relapse prevention? This thesis proposes an active imagination technique viewed…
The focus of this dissertation is that of inner-directed, positively-oriented, personal transformation: How is it theoretically possible? How might it be done? What is its relationship to social change? These questions will be considered from three different theoretical perspect…
This dissertation examines the quandary of modern societal dislocation and fragmentation due to loss of traditional forms of making meaning and culture cohesion such as institutionalized religious affiliations, public education, and shared values community building.
The psyche is longing to return. Through a heuristic research methodology, this thesis explores psyche through the archetype of the Orphan to portray an individual and collective journey home to the Self. For the purpose of this thesis, psyche represents the embodied soul, the t…