Dreaming in Red: The Women's Dionysian Initiation Chamber in Pompeii [Paperback]

Linda Fierz-David (Author), Nor Hall (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2005

The red of Dionysus belongs to women. So dark it is almost black, it calls up old wine, deep wounds, and the marbled walls of the womb itself heavy with twisted veins reaching inevitably toward the heart. At the heart of the Mystery chamber that anchors these pages in Pompeii there is an unabashed love of women . . . Wreathed in red and weighted by soulfulness, she is an image of the Roman Mater Matuta — mother of maturation — assessing the ripeness of a process eloquently described in Linda Fierz's analysis of feminine ritual activity on the walls of a unique Mediterranean Villa” (Nor Hall).

Contents: Preface (Nor Hall) -- Women's Dionysian Initiation: The Villa of Mysteries in Pompeii (Linda Fierz-David) -- Those Women (Nor Hall) -- plates -- publisher's note. Incl. 5 color plates. 

Includes Those Women, originally published 1988 by Spring Publications.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Nor Hall offers a penetrating and richly layered exploration of women's initiation She addresses several enticing questions regarding several women devoted to either Jung or Jungian psychology, Dionysian inspiration and mysteries, or all of these . . . [H]ighly and strongly recommended . . ." - Sheila Coghill, Moorhead State University

From the Author

Dreaming in Red is the second edition of Those Women. It includes a new preface describing the spontaneous mid-night acquisition of the original manuscript.  An unfortunate problem in the reprinting process left many errors at the end of this new edition.  These errors are not in the original Spring edition. ERRATA as follows:

182 4 up: shifting, not shirting
188 2nd p 2nd line: out, not our
189 5 lines down: oft, not off
192 last p 3rd line: full, not full-full
193 1st p last line: of ten, not often
194 4 lines up: not con-tinuous
195 bottom: staff or rod, not staffer
206 2nd p 4 lines up: grief, not griet
208 2 lines up: Jung not Jury!!
210 1st p 5 lines up: dash, not clash
212 4 lines up: no " before off
217 1st line after squiggle: life, not lite
220 end of 1st p: falling, not tailing
221 5 lines down: fact, not tact
223 2 lines up: reading, not reacting

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Product Details

• Paperback: 260 pages
• Publisher: Spring Publications (April 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0882145517
• ISBN-13: 978-0882145518
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #493,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Nor Hall (born Eleanor L. Hall in 1947, BA Beloit College 1969, PhD in History of Consciousness, UCSC) is a writer, archetypal thinker, psychotherapist and theatre-collaborator. She has worked with Pantheatre (Paris), Shawn McConneloug's Orchestra (Minneapolis) and Archipelago (Chapel Hill) where she contributed to the development of seven award-winning pieces for the stage between 1997 and 2010, notably Those Women, Eulogy for a Warrior and Out of the Blue. She is the author of The Moon and the Virgin: Images of the Archetypal Feminine, a book that rode the wave of mid-century feminism. Hall was awarded a Jerome Travel Study grant in 2005. She opened the Third International Cast Iron Artists Conference in Ironbridge, England and has lectured at the Walker Art Center, the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, the NY Open Center, Pacifica Graduate Institute and too many Jungian and post-Jungian venues. In 2011 the Institute for Cultural Change conference TheseWomen! was named after her book.