Eros is the Greek god of Love, and Psyche is the Greek word for Soul – Love and Soul are inseparable. I'm a somewhat unlikely person to appreciate Valentine's Day; however, the myth of Eros and Psyche is one of my favourites. In honouring the deeper meaning of this significant day, I offer a retelling
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Saint Francis de Sales
Welcome to a Brand New Year! A few questions for reflection as you transition over this milestone... What are you grateful for from 2014? What were your accomplishments for 2014? What are your intentions for 2015? Live in the present, but dream your future into being!
An article for the Pacifica Graduate Institute Dissertation Newsletter about the process and experience of writing my depth psychology doctoral dissertation. A Process in Individuation By Dr. Stacey Shelby I invited the Wild Woman archetype to work with me (well, at that time, I still believed I was the one doing the inviting)—my dissertation title
Defending my dissertation in Oct. 2014. ABSTRACT Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype: A Process in Individuation by Stacey Shelby This alchemical hermeneutic study describes, interprets, and relates to the "wild woman” archetype. It examines the experience of how a woman may choose to express her sexuality and possible relationship(s) as she integrates this
Conference presentation “Pothos, Eros & Aphrodite: Meditations on the Gods who Drive our Wanderings” The Study of Myth Symposium: Exploring Myth: Culture, Theory, Practice September 2, 2012 This was a panel presentation at The Study of Myth Symposium. Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA Paper Title: Living and Loving Erotically , by Stacey Shelby
The eventual achievement that our suffering has meaning makes suffering more bearable. The area of wounding is a direct route to the numinosum. The archetype at the core is both the one that causes the suffering and is also the one that can cause the healing through increased consciousness of that area of suffering. The
I think it is important to become aware of the patriarchal dominant operating within the psyche in order to differentiate it from a new masculine perspective. I believe this moves toward the father and mother complex and both of those need to be resolved for the emergent feminine, anima, and the new masculine, animus within
By Stacey Shelby, Ph.D. I want to turn to the fourth task in the myth of Eros and Psyche. Psyche’s fourth and final task given to her by Aphrodite is to descend to the underworld and meet the great goddess, Persephone. Psyche is to ask Persephone for a cask of her beauty ointment and bring
By Stacey Shelby, Ph.D. The Secret of the Golden Flower, translated and explained by Richard Wilhelm, commentary by C.G. Jung(1931), explores the esoteric Chinese text, which was first printed in the eighteenth century, but is thousands of years old originating in an oral tradition. Wilhelm invited Jung to write a commentary on this text as
