From Library Journal
Using the story of Gregorius: The Good Sinner by Middle High German poet Hartmann von Aue as his framework, Perkins explores the path of individual development in bringing unconscious contents to consciousness instead of being possessed by them. Gregory, a child born of incest who like Oedipus marries his mother, transmutes his heritage of shame through long years of self-imposed exile and penance. Chosen by God to become Pope, he brings healing and wholeness to others. Perkins, a Jungian therapist, suggests that symbolic incest, the union of the anima and animus in each of us, is the source of Western culture but that like the child Gregory, it must be transformed spiritually. The poverty of spirit in the modern world, he claims, is the result of humans mistaking themselves for the divine and of not recognizing the reality of spiritual forces and honoring them in conscious life. Recommended for large collections in literature and psychology.
- Lucy Patrick, Florida State Univ. Lib., Tallahassee
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Lucy Patrick, Florida State Univ. Lib., Tallahassee
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
