Mythological Studies Journal

Dear Readers,

Welcome to the Mythological Studies Journal featuring writings by students enrolled in the MA/PhD Mythological Studies Program with a specialization in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. The essays reflect the interdisciplinary approach of this program, which integrates perspectives on myth from religious studies, literature, and depth psychology as a means of elucidating issues and motifs that shape the cultural dynamics, diverse worldviews, and complexities of psychological life in the contemporary world.

Many thanks are due to all of the peer-reviewers and authors and our faculty advisor, Dr. Emily Lord-Kambitsch, for their contributions to the most recent volume of essays.

Sincerely,
The Mythological Studies Journal Editorial Team

Volume XI (2023)

• 2023 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume X (2022)

• 2022 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume IX (2021)

• 2021 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume VIII (2020)

• 2020 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume VII (2019)

• 2019 Mythological Studies Journal

Volume VI (2018)

• 2018 Mythological Studies Journal

Volume V (2014)

• Good Man Down: The Myth of Masculine Violence in American Society by David S. McCabe
• Violence and Veneration: Tapping a sadomasochistic vein in the American psyche by Angelina Avedano
• Soul-Making and the Colorado Shooting: James Holmes as the Joker, Trickster, Savior by Michael Bogar
• Demeter and Persephone as Temenos: A Perspective of Understanding Postpartum Depression by Stephanie Zajchowski
• Shading in a Violent Shadow: A Hero’s Confrontation with the American Shadow in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Leontine Armstrong

Volume IV (2013)

• Cheap Tattered Gloves: Getting a Grip in the Modern World by Timothy Hall
• The Ecopsychology of Milk by Odette Springer
• The (Mal) Creation of Food the Monsanto Way: A Call to Return a Mythic Sensitivity to Food Production by Clara Oropeza
• The Necessary Relativity of Secrecy by Nina Hatfield
• A Transformation of Gawain: A Human Experience by Leontine Armstrong
• From Republican Chaos to Imperial Cosmos: Virgil’s New Myth for Augustan Rome in the Aeneid by Matt Wheeler
• “The Music of the Spheres”: Musical Theory and Alchemical Image by Margaret Mendenhall

Volume III (2012)

• The Loa Mounts: Physical, Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Possession by Jody Gentian Bower
• Re-Visioning Patriarchy Through the Lens of Homer’s Odyssey by Michael Dean Bogar
• The Salt That She Became: The Unnamed Wife in Genesis by Emma Tresemer
• The Hermetic Christ by Rebecca Diggs
• The Concubine as Mytheme of Convergence and Differentiation in Hebrew Mythology by Karin Zirk
• Terminal Mercury Poisoning: The Threatened Extinction of Primordial Mind by Anita Doyle
• In Techno-Eden: Fantasies of Death and Rebirth in The Fountain by Dorene Sue Koehler
• Drawing Water, Drawing Breath by Odette Springer

Volume II (2011)

• In a Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See: Plumbing the Subtle Depths of Alchemical Saturn by Anita Doyle
• The Lyre and the Drum: Dionysus and Apollo throughout Music History by Kathleen Asbo
• Get Lost! The Psychic Value of Wilderness Adventures in the Lives of Children by Aaron Duggan
• Relinquishing Grief: Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes in Truly Madly Deeply by Jody Bower
• Archetypal Interpretation of Sleeping Beauty: Awakening the Power of Love by Grace Hogstad
• The Underworld at the End of the Maze: Re-entering Pan’s Labryinth by Emma Tresemer
• Mandalas of Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish: Geometric Soul-Images in Melville’s Moby-Dick by Laura Strudwick

Volume I (2010)

• Epic Fathering: Homer’s Odyssey as Healer of the Puer-Senex Split and Restorer of Mythic Movement by Gustavo Beck
• Woodlands, Farmlands and Homesteads: The Landscapes of Childhood and Discovery of Soul by Kathie Collins
• The Whirling Subalpine Fir: An Encounter with Nature, Psyche and Myth by Darla Dench
• Under-Standing: The Divine Messenger Hermes and the Character of Hermeneutics by Rebecca Diggs
• Nex Ex Machina, Or Bringing It All Back Home: The Fallacy and Fantasy of Sacrificeless Warfare and Why It Will Never Work by Aaron Duggan
• The Tri-Wizard Cup: Alchemy and Transformation in Harry Potter by Priscilla Hobbs
• The Longissima Via by Maureen Murdock
• Thinking in Narrative: Seeing Through To the Myth in Philosophy by Joe Muszynski
• “Red Feels Like Red!”: The Aesthetic Body in the Sensual World by Leslie Stoupas
• Infinite Space and Self-Similar Form in Alchemy and Fractal Geometry by Laura Strudwick
• The Open-Mouthed Condition: Odysseus’ Transition from Warrior to Ruler by S. Asher Sund
• When Shadows Meet: The Interplay of Archetypes in The Bacchae by Emma Tresemer