Orpheus and Eurydice in Myth, History, and Analytical Psychology

Terence Dawson is an independent scholar, following a career teaching English and European literature at universities in Brazil, the UK, and Singapore.

Introduction Part 1: Orpheus, or Impossible Longing 1. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as Moral Philosophy: Virgil’s Epyllion 2. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as Psychological Process: Ovid’s ‘Song of Orpheus’ 3. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Classical Philosophy, and Christian Allegory: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 4. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and Love: The Renaissance and Early Baroque 5. The Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice and Social and Personal Concerns: The Late Baroque and the Age of Sensibility 6. Romantic Identification with Orpheus: The Nineteenth Century Part 2: Eurydice, or Unbearable Loss 7. Orpheus and Eurydice, Dissociative Tendencies, and Self-Transformation: Early Twentieth-Century Modernism 8. Orpheus and Eurydice, Dysfunctional Times, and the Need to Testify: The Second World War 9. Orpheus as Embodiment of the Creative Impulse: The 1950s 10. Orpheus Trapped Inside a Tragic Myth: 1960 to 1995 11. Orpheus and Eurydice, Confronting Reality and Self-Awareness: 1995 to 2020