Awakening with Soul Stack
The Myth of Psyche and Eros in Analysis
Awakening with Soul was a deep and wild dive into Psyche’s process of transformation into the Goddess of Soul. Her fall calls archetypal Eros, the god of love, down to earth and brings him into realization of his own divine nature—anima—and their transcendent union transforms Psyche into the Goddess of Soul.
What does this mean for us as individuals, for the collective, and what does this mean in myth and psychoanalysis?
Throughout history’s retellings of this archetypal pattern, Psyche as Soul has been the main focus for refinement, but in this class, we focused on how Psyche’s story necessitates the embodiment of Eros to become conscious.
This is a story where both archetypes mutually transform each other. We explored the lesser-discussed individuation of Eros as young love’s shadows and insecurities and the necessitation of ego’s individuation away from the ruling imago constructs or status quo. Psychoanalytic concepts such as projection, complex, thinking and feeling, embodiment, consciousness, and the unconscious was explored.
The goal was to discover together a new hermeneutic key to the mystery of soul’s sublimation alongside the alchemical individuation of conscious love on the personal, transpersonal, ecological, and collective levels. Together, we indulged in meaning-making, connecting through symbolic play and multilayered amplification of the myth, its images, and contemporary media.
Participants were encouraged to share their own dream images, synchronicities, and stories, and hopefully, they will come away with a deepened understanding of their own soul’s story.
**All proceeds went to helping provide low-cost Jungian therapy to students and those in need, as well as the ability to continue to share these resources!
Books mentioned (Right Stack):
The Agony of Eros by Byung-Chul Han
Amor and Psyche by Eric Neumann
Projection and Re-Collection by Marie Louise Von Franz
The Myth of Analysis by James Hillman
Psyche by Carl Gustav Carus
The Mystery of the Coniunctio by Edward F. Edinger
On the Nature of the Psyche by Carl Jung
Psyche’s Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power by Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson
Golden Ass of Apuleius by Marie Louise Von Franz
Fire in the Stone: The Alchemy of Desire by Chiron
The Transcendent Function by Jeffrey C. Miller
The Shadow of the Object by Christopher Bollas
The Responsibility to Understand by Theodore George
Knowing by Heart by Anthony J. Steinbock
The Inner World of Trauma by Donald Kalsched
Archetypal Psychology by James Hillman
The Mystery of Human Relationship by Nathan Schwartz-Salant
Pathways into the Jungian World, edited by Roger Brooke
Metamorphoses of Psyche in Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Thought by Marcia D-S. Dobson
Of Cosmogonic Eros by Ludwig Klages
Books mentioned (Left Stack):
The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm
When the Soul Remembers Itself, edited by Thomas Singer, Jules Cashford and Craig San Roque
At Home In the Language of the Soul by Josephine Evetts-Secker
Mythologems by James Hollis
The Analytic Encounter by Mario Jacoby
The Redemption of the Feminine Erotic Soul by Rachel Hillel
The Chains of Eros by Andre Green
Femininity, Desire and Sublimation in Psychoanalysis by Elda Abrevaya
