In this powerful book, travel along with Dennis Patrick Slattery as he sets off on a three-month pilgrimage, during which he struggles with his identity; his role as a father and husband, teacher and believer; as well as the life and death of his father. Throughout his stays at twelve monasteries and retreat centers, Slattery seeks the refuge of ...
A collection of essays in the spirit of Jung. A rebellion against the legacy of Enlightenment fundamentalism, which emphasized the literal reality of the world and feasted on measurement and quantification, these writings explore the psyche's diverse expressions.
An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the ...
"A glance at these 30 essays reveals Professor Slattery's astoundingly vast and varied range of scholarly interests....These disciplines function for Dennis as modes of knowing, modes of imagining." --Peter C. Phan, Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought, Georgetown University. Elizabeth Fergus-Jean, Ph.D., is an artist and professor ...
As Dennis Patrick Slattery's writing shows, the very stuff of the great traditions is life itself, and the hurly-burly of current culture is the ground in which tradition thrives. Slattery's analyses are keen and thoughtful, often scholarly, and always deeply spiritual. But they are better for being a bit pugnacious and intimate and virile. They ...
Developed in the spirit of C G Jung, and extended by the work of James Hillman, "Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field" grows directly from the soil of the Romantic Movement of the 19th century.
This book presents contributions from different authors covering the mythical basis for different religions. It also shows how psychology and philosophy have been influenced by myths.
In this collection of essays, Dennis Patrick Slattery and Jennifer Leigh Selig bring together eighteen master teachers - from elementary, high school, undergraduate, graduate, adult education, and across many disciplines - to share their reflections on reviving, revisioning, and renewing the soul of learning. What timeless and perennial qualities ...
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